Newberry v. Slafter

This is a bill filed to enforce specific performance of a contract for the sale of land. Complainants reside at Ooldwater, and defendant at Vassar, and the negotiations were by letter. The terms of payment were, as agreed upon, one-half cash, and the balance to be secured by mortgage, payable in two years, with interest at 6 per cent. The bill prays, not alone that defendant may be •compelled to make the cash payment, but that he also may be required to execute the mortgage. There is no force, therefore, in the contention that the sole purpose of the bill is the recovery of the consideration.

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