Cleaveland v. Moore

Judoe Graham

delivered the opinion of the Court.

By a contract, dated 7th May, 1834, the plaintiff residing in Woodford county, “agreed to take of the defendant seven tomb stones, six feet long, and one stone three and a half or four feet long,, at the defendant's house in Madison county, all finished in good style, and lettered with the common inscription, on or before the first of September,” (next ensuing the date of the covenant,) and for which the plaintiff bound himself “to pay the defendant at his house, four hundred pounds of good gun powder, and one hundred pounds which he then owed…