St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. v. Bolton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, C. J.

The appellants were the owners of a tract of land about six miles from the city of Tacoma, having water front on Puget Sound. On the 15th day of July, 1890, they sold twenty-four and one-half acres of land to *764Marie J. Shannon and Etta T. Cantara for the sum of 87,-500, giving them a bond for a deed to the premises and putting them in possession. Shannon and Cantara paid §1,500 when the bond was delivered, and §500 a few months later, but paid nothing further. By the terms of the bond a deed was to be executed when the land was fully paid…