Robinson v. Cheney

This is an action to enforce specific performance of a contract for the sale of the S. -J- of the S. E. -| and the S. E. I of the 8. W. J of See. 13, and the N. E. J of the N. *674E. I of Sec. 24, in T. 4 N., R. 9 E., in Johnson county. The contract of sale is somewhat peculiar, and is as follows:

This indenture, made this twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty, between Prentiss D. Cheney of Jersey county, Illinois, party of the first part, and Alexander Robinson, of Johnson county, Nebraska, party of the second part, witnesseth, that in…