Beer v. Leonard

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Pocnb, J.

The object of plaintiffs in this suit is.to enforce an agreement of the defendant to purchase from them a piece of immovable property, which they hold by purchase from one Francisco Pippo r effected in August, 1881.

The defense rests on the alleged deficiency of Pippo’s title; and it was sustained below. >

It appears from the record that Pippo’s muniments of titles are as-follows: to one-half of the property, by purchase, in the year 1871,, from Joseph Spoturino, then the owner of the whole estate;- and to the-other half by purchase at a public…