State ex rel. Bradford v. Cross
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Lyon District Court. Action by The State against H. C. Cross, to cancel a certain contract for the sale of 7,520 acres of State Normal School lands, at $3.50 per acre. The State demurred to the second count of defendant’s answer. This demurrer was overruled at the April Term, 1886. The plaintiff brings the case here. The material facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
This was an action brought by the state of Kansas, upon the relation of the attorney general, against H. C. Cross, on October 24, 1885, to cancel a certain contract for the sale of seven thousand five hundred and twenty acres of State Normal School lands, at three dollars and fifty cents per acre. The contract was executed July 19, 1884, between H. C. Cross and Nan R. Holmes, the authorized agent for the sale of the lands. The written contract provided that it should not be in force or take effect until indorsed with the approval of the…
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