Thompson v. Scott

The Court below sustained a demurrer to an amended bill in chancery, filed by appellants in Mercer county. The bill as amended was in substance as follows, viz:

On the 4th day of Dec., A. D. 1861, James S. Thompson, then in his lifetime, but since deceased, was the owner and seized in fee of certain lands situated in the county of Mercer, described in the bill.

On that date he agreed to sell said land to the defendant, Eleanor 0. Scott, then and since the wife of the defendant, James H. Scott, for the sum of $500, and the said Eleanor 0. Scott agreed to purchase said land on the following…