Banks v. Bowman
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Chicot Chancery Court; James C. Norman, Special Chancellor; The contract in this case has already been construed by this court, and under the facts established there can be no doubt of appellant’s right to the land. 76 Ark. 578; 78 Ark. 333; Id. 574.
1Opinion of the CourtHill, C. J.
H. C. Williamson, of Memphis, Tenn., contracted to sell twenty or thirty tracts of land in Chicot County to negroes on time payments — among others a forty-acre tract to King Banks on the 7th of December, 1899. The consideration was $25 cash and five notes for $61.85 each, due on the first day of each November for the five following years. The contract is identical, so far as the issues here are concerned, with the contracts construed in Carpenter v. Thornburn, 76 Ark. 578, and Smith v. Caldwell, 78 Ark. 333.
The land, when purchased by Banks, was wooded land; it had been deadened but not…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Carpenter v. ThornburnSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1905
- Smith v. CaldwellSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1906
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