Legal Opinion

Pettys v. Marsh

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided January 15, 1888PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Orange county. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

The Chief-Justice

delivered the opinion of the court:

This was an action on a promissory note, and in declaring on it the plaintiff, who is appellee here, prefaced his count with a statement that the note was given by appellant for an indebtedness to him on a contract for the purchase of an undivided one-half interest in a certain lot of land and saw-mill in Orange county, and attached the contract to his declaration. Subsequently he amended his declaration by tendering and filing a warranty deed to the land described in the contract. Appellant pleaded to the *45declaration that the deed was not a…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Garlington v. PriestSupreme Court of Florida · 1869
  2. L'Engle v. L'EngleSupreme Court of Florida · 1883

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Henderson v. MortonSupreme Court of Florida · 1933
  2. Jordan v. John Ryan Co.Supreme Court of Florida · 1895
  3. Porter v. ParslowSupreme Court of Florida · 1897
  4. Bishop v. CampSupreme Court of Florida · 1897
  5. Cosmopolitan Fire Insurance v. BoatwrightSupreme Court of Florida · 1910

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