Goodwin v. Lyon
Supreme Court of Alabama
In error to a decree in Chancery, of the Circuit Court of Talladega. This was a bill in Chancery, filed in i he Circuit Court of Talladega, by Joshua Lyon; and its object was to enforce the specific execution of a parol agreement for the sale of lands.
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In error to a decree in Chancery, of the Circuit Court of Talladega. This was a bill in Chancery, filed in i he Circuit Court of Talladega, by Joshua Lyon; and its object was to enforce the specific execution of a parol agreement for the sale of lands. The bill stated that on the twenty-sixth day of December, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-three, he contracted by parol with Thomas Goodwin, the defendant, for the purchase of the south half of section fifteen, in township .seventeen, of range six. — * That by the terms of the said cdntract, the- said Goodwin was to receive of the…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, J.
— The defendant in error filed his-bill against the plaintiff, for the specific performance of a parol agreement, for the sale of land.
In the bill it is stated that the parties made an agreement for the purchase and sale of a half section of land, situate in the Coosa land district, on the twenty-sixth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, by. which the plaintiff received, of the *302defendant, a horse, estimated at one hundred dollars, and was to receive one hundred dollars on the twenty-fifth December, eighteen hundred and thirty-four ; one hundred and fifty dollars, on the…
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