McNeil v. McNeil

Plaintiff brought this action in the district court seeking to compel specific performance of a written- contract entered into between himself and the defendant William R. McNeil for the conveyance of certain real property situate in what is known as North Canyon in Davis county, Utah.

The admitted facts upon which the judgment and decree of the distrifet court were predicated are substantially as follows:

On August 1, 1902, the defendant William R. McNeil entered into a contract with the state of Utah, acting through the State Board of Land Commissioners, for the purchase of the lands at a…