Lowbey v. Byers

— The material facts stated in the complaint of the appellee are these: On the 12th day of November, 1874, the appellee and John Tracy bought of Silas Scott forty acres of land and received a deed; that the price agreed upon for the land was two thousand dollars, of which appellee and Tracy paid five hundred dollars, and for the remainder executed their joint notes, and also executed a mortgage; that it was the contract between Tracy and the appellee, that each should pay the one-half of the purchase-money, and each own one undivided half of the land; that they paid all the notes executed for…