Buffalo Coal & Coke Co. v. Vance

.Mialee. Junan:

Specific performance of a contract for the sale or exchange of land and landed interests is sought by the bill, and by the decree appealed from performance by both parties was decreed.

The contract sought to be enforced was made between the defendant James M. Vance and W. Iv. Cowden, Trustee, by Z. T. Vinson, dated October 10, 1903. The plaintiff company claims under a deed from Cowden, Trustee, and others, dated June 8, 1907. This suit was not begun until August 10, 1908. So that nearly five years elapsed between the date of the contract and the date of the suit to enforce it.

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