Kerr v. Hammond

Simmons, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff’s evidence makes substantially this case: He had arranged on May 17, 1890, to buy of one Weaver the land described in the pleadings, consisting of two hundred and fifty acres, for the sum of $6,250, of which $2,000 was to be paid in cash, and one half the remainder in one year and the other half in two year’s, the deferred payments to bear interest at eight per cent, per annum. Shortly *568afterwards he made a parol agreement with the defendant by which they were to become interested together in the-proposed purchase on this basis: the defendant to make…