Shaeffer v. Blair
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. This was a bill in equity, filed December 8, 1885, by John I. Blair, a citizen of Missouri, against Samuel C. Shaeffer, a citizen of Ohio, and other persons, citizens of other States, claiming under him, setting forth a contract in writing between the plaintiff and Shaeffer, dated February 4, 1884, (which is copied m the margin,1) and praying that Shaeffer might he ordered to convey to…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. This was a bill in equity, filed December 8, 1885, by John I. Blair, a citizen of Missouri, against Samuel C. Shaeffer, a citizen of Ohio, and other persons, citizens of other States, claiming under him, setting forth a contract in writing between the plaintiff and Shaeffer, dated February 4, 1884, (which is copied m the margin,1) and praying that Shaeffer might he ordered to convey to the plaintiff the lands described in that contract, and that it be adjudged that the defendants had no title or interest…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Gray,
after stating the case, delivered the opin-' ion of the court.
The decision of this case turns upon the construction of the contract of February 4, 1884, by which the parties agreed to buy certain lands and to sell them again for the joint benefit of both.
The provisions of that contract were, in substance, that those lands, in- the greater part of which Shaeffer already had an equitable title under agreements of third persons to sell and convey them to him, should be purchased,. for the mutual interest of the parties; that the legal title in all the lands should be taken in…
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