Pollock v. Brainard

This is a bill for the specific performance of a contract for the sale of real estate. The negotiations were carried on and the contract consummated, if at all, by correspondence. The entire correspondence, and in its chronological order, is as follows:

Exhibit A.

“ColeRidge, Cedar Co., Neb., April 8, 1884.

“GJias. D. Brainard, Peoi-ia, III. — Dear Sir: Did you ever own the S. W. J- Sec. 17, Tp. 30, 11. 2E.? I have a tax deed for the land. It was sold a long time ago. I olfored to buy the quitclaim only for the purpose of quieting title and settling a controversy. Mr. Jenel, who assumed to be…