Young v. Wright
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL IN' EQUITY EKOM THE CIBCUIT COUHT OP MILWAUKEE OOUSTY. This was a bill, in equity filed by Young, the complainant, to enforce the specific performance of a contract, alleged to have been made by the defendant, Timothy Wright, by his attorney, George E. H. Day, with the complainant, for the sale to the latter of certain lands adjoining the city of Milwaukee.
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APPEAL IN' EQUITY EKOM THE CIBCUIT COUHT OP MILWAUKEE OOUSTY. This was a bill, in equity filed by Young, the complainant, to enforce the specific performance of a contract, alleged to have been made by the defendant, Timothy Wright, by his attorney, George E. H. Day, with the complainant, for the sale to the latter of certain lands adjoining the city of Milwaukee. The bill was filed on die ±4th day of November, 1853. The defendant filed his answer, and testimony was taken for both parties. Upon the bill, answer and proof, the Circuit Court rendered a decree, dismissing the complainant’s bill,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Whiton, 0. J.
The bill of complaint in this case sets out an agreement made by the defendant, by his attorney, George E. H. Day, by which agreement the defendant engaged to sell to the complainant the land described in the bill for the sum of $125 per acre, a part of which was to be paid at the time when the conveyance was executed, and the residue at different times afterwards, the said residue being secured by a mortgage on the property. The bill alleges a refusal on the part of the defendant to fulfill the contract, although the complainant tendered to the agent that part of…
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