Ellis v. Deadman's heirs

*466OPINION of the Court, by

Ch. J. Boyxb

_This was a bill filed for the purpose of obtaining a conveyance óf a lot in the town of Versailles, which the complainant alleges he had purchased of the ancestor of the defen- ■ dants. -•-■■■

*467The defendants pleaded and relied tipon the statute against frauds and perjuries ; and on the hearing of the cause the only -written evidence of the contract produced by the complainant, was a receipt in the following words and figures, viz. ■ *.

“ 4th January 1808 — ^Received of Jesse Ellis in part pay for a lot he bought of me in the town of Ver-sallies ; it being…