Payne v. Hart

This appeal is prosecuted from a decree compelling specific performance of a contract of purchase of land. The case was tried upon an agreed statement of facts, from which it appears that D. W. Dover was the owner and in possession of the 53.64 acres of land in Lee County, known as the Adams land, prior to the 24th day of July, 1908, described in the first item of his will. The said Dover died testate after said date, and a copy of the will was duly admitted to probate. J ohn E. Hart, appellee, and the devisee mentioned in the first item of the will, with his family has occupied the land…