Curnutt v. Roberts

Judge Simpson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Curnutt, and those under whom he claims, having had an uninterrupted possession of the land upon which he resided for more than twenty ‘years, and Roberts pretending some claim to it which he proposed to assert by suit, they made a verbal contract, by which the latter agreed not to sue for the land, but to make a deed to the former relinquishing his right to it, for which Curnutt agreed to pay him the sum of thirty dollars.

Shortly thereafter, Roberts tendered a deed and demanded the payment of the thirty dollars; but Curnutt refused to accept…