Langston v. Bates

This was a bill in equity, brought by Asaph J. Bates and his children, heirs at law of Emily Bates, deceased, to enforce the specific performance of a parol contract made by Joseph D. Langston, in 1857, to convey a certain tract of land, consisting of forty acres, in Menard county, to Asaph J. Bates and his wife, Emily. The bill also set up a subsequent agreement made between the parties, under which the complainants claimed to be entitled to a- deed for another forty acre tract, adjoining the one in question on the east. On the hearing, the court decreed against the complainants as to the…