Grant v. Beronio

Action for specific performance.

The plaintiff had judgment in the court below, and the defendant has appealed, upon the judgment roll alone, without any bill of exceptions. The court finds that the defendant made an agreement with the plaintiff for the sale and conveyance to him of a parcel of land, of which he was the owner, in the town of San Buenaventura, for the sum of five thousand five hundred dollars, of which he acknowledged in the agreement that he had received one thousand dollars, and the remaining four thousand five hundred dollars was to be paid on delivery of a deed, free of…