Curtis v. Blair
Mississippi Supreme Court
ON appeal from the northern district chancery court at Holly Springs; Hon. Henry Dickinson, vice-chancellor. Alexander C. Blair filed his bill in the district chancery court at Holly Springs against the appellants, Curtis, Crawford, and Ayres, for the specific performance of an ‘alleged contract in relation to a section of land in Tippah county, and known and designated as section 29 in township 2 of range 1 east, of the basis meridian of the Chickasaw mission.
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ON appeal from the northern district chancery court at Holly Springs; Hon. Henry Dickinson, vice-chancellor. Alexander C. Blair filed his bill in the district chancery court at Holly Springs against the appellants, Curtis, Crawford, and Ayres, for the specific performance of an ‘alleged contract in relation to a section of land in Tippah county, and known and designated as section 29 in township 2 of range 1 east, of the basis meridian of the Chickasaw mission. The bill states that H. T. Curtis, being the owner of said section of land, appointed one Joel Pinson his agent to sell said section;…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice HaNdy
The appellee filed this bill in the district chancery court at Holly Springs, for the specific performance of a contract for the sale of a tract .of land, under the following state of facts.
On the 22d August, 1850, one Pinson, as agent for the appellant Curtis, addressed a letter to Blair, the appellee, stating, in substance, that their friend White had called upon Pinson, to purchase a tract of land for Blair, which Pinson understood to be the land in controversy in this case, though White did not know the numbers of it; that he could not make the sale, because negotiations were then in…
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