McNamara v. Garrity

Thomas Garrity exhibited his bill in chancery in the Greene circuit court, against Anthony McNamara and others, praying for the conveyance to him of a certain ten-acre tract of land therein specifically described. The substance, in brief, of the allegations of the bill is this: On the 23d of April, 1859, Garrity and McNamara agreed, between themselves, to buy a designated forty-acre tract of. land of one Davidson. Garrity was to pay one-fourth of the purchase money, and McNamara was to pay the other three-fourths thereof, and one-fourth of the land, in a ten-acre strip off the west side…