Melvin v. Schlessinger

On the 16th day of December, in the year 1916, Wm. N. Crisp, H. Emory Gray and Eidgely P. Melvin obtained a patent for a tract of land therein called “Billikin,” containing eight and seventy-two hundredths acres bordering upon the' Patapseo River, a navigable stream, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

On the 14th day of September, 1920, the said patentees, the appellants in this Court, entered into an agreement with the appellee, Jacob Schlessinger, to sell to him the said tract of land at and for the sum of $4,500, of which sum two hundred dollars were paid prior to the execution of said…