Williams v. Dumas

This is a suit by appellant, a negro, against appellee Dumas, to compel specific performance of a contract partly in writing and partly in parol to convey nine acres of land in a square in the NE corner of the Sy2 SW SW, Sec. 23-18-17, Union County, and against both’appellees to cancel an oil and gas lease on said nine acres, executed by Dumas to Harrison on June 12, 1937.

Appellant acquired the title to said land on October 22, 1922, and has been in the actual possession thereof from that date to the present time. On April 5, 1927, he and his wife executed and delivered to Dumas a deed of…