Piper v. Cooper-Atha-Bar Real Estate & Mortgage Co.

Suit at law was brought in the Circuit Court of Orange County to recover the amount due as the unpaid purchase price of lands contracted in writing to be sold to the defendant, and delivered into his possession, but as to which the title deeds had not passed because of the provisions of the contracts of purchase to the effect that deeds should not pass «until all installment notes had been fully paid. The contracts defined the terms of the purchase and the amounts to be paid. At the trial. plaintiff obtained a directed verdict for the unpaid amounts due under the written contracts and notes…