Watson v. White

John P. White, since deceased, filed this bill of complaint in the circuit court of Cook county on the 11th day of October, 1889, against Henry P. Fix and William M. Watson. The object of the bill was to enforce the specific performance of a contract in writing made by Fix for the conveyance of twenty-two acres of land in Cook county to White. The contract bore date the 15th day of February, 1889, and its contents may be summarized thus: Fix agreed to sell, and White to buy, the land at the price of $18,000, of which $500 was then paid in cash as earnest money, and to be applied on the…