Ormsby v. Hunton

*298OPINION of the Court, by

judge Owsley.

— This Was a suit in chancery, brought in the court below by ^ie appellant against the appellee to obtain the specific execution of a contract for the purchase oí a lot in the toWn of Louisville.

T'he appellee by his answer denies selling the lot to the appellant, but admits his friend John Bell, some t\me previous to the year 1804, informed him by letter tIiat aPPe^ant wished to purchase the lot in question, and would give therefoy g 460 ; that upon the receipt of this intelligence he wrote to Bell, inclosing a bond, conditioned to make a title to the lot…