BAILEY v. EAGLE MOUNTAIN TELEPHONE CO.


303 S.W.2d 726 (1957)

Robert H. BAILEY, Appellant, v. EAGLE MOUNTAIN TELEPHONE CO., Inc., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

June 7, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maupin, Berry & Curtis, Greeneville, for appellant.

Fraker, Silvers & Coleman, and F.H. Parvin, Greeneville, for appellee.


SWEPSTON, Justice.

This is a suit for a specific performance in which the appellant filed his bill to require the respondent Telephone Company to specifically perform its contract of purchase of a tract of real estate which it had bargained to purchase from said Bailey. The Chancellor sustained the demurrer of the defendant and dismissed the bill, hence this appeal.

The principal question is whether or not the following language, without more, created a fee...

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