Hawkins v. Hunt

The substance of the complainant’s ease, as stated in his bill, is this: that in April, 1852, there was an agreement between the defendants Hunt and Conner, for an exchange of lands; that complainant and others had claims against Hunt, which complainant agreed to satisfy, and also to pay Hunt seventy-one dollars in addition, for which he executed a note payable at Christmas, 1852, in consideration whereof Hunt agreed by parol to convey to complainant, at the then next term of the Jefferson circuit court, the tract of land which he was to get from Conner, then occupied by a tenant of Hunt, but…