Dart v. Hercules

This was a bill in chancery, exhibited by the appellant in the circuit court of Woodford county, to enforce the specific performance of an alleged verbal agreement on the part of the county of Livingston, to sell to him a certain tract of land described in the original and the amended bills, and to enjoin an ejectment suit then pending and undetermined in said court, for a part of said tract of land, commenced by the appellee Hercules, against the terre-tenants of appellant.

The appellant alleges in his amended bill, that in May, 1859, he applied to Woolverton, the agent and commissioner for…