Ober v. Gallagher
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe Eastern District of Arkansas. Thompson purchased from Fleming, Jan. 15,. 1867, a plantation situated partly in Prairie County and partly in Pulaski County, Ark., at tbe price of $.60,000, to be paid in ten equal instalments, tbe first March 1, 1867, and the remainder annu-, ally thereafter.
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Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe Eastern District of Arkansas. Thompson purchased from Fleming, Jan. 15,. 1867, a plantation situated partly in Prairie County and partly in Pulaski County, Ark., at tbe price of $.60,000, to be paid in ten equal instalments, tbe first March 1, 1867, and the remainder annu-, ally thereafter. Notes, negotiable in form, and expressing on their face that their consideration was the purchase of this plantation, were executed by Thompson to Fleming for the several instalments, payable at the times agreed upon. On the same day, the date of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
stated the .case, and delivered the opinion of the court.
No errors have been assigned either upon the record or in the briefs of counsel, as required by our Rule 21. For this reason, we might very properly affirm the decree without looking into the record; but, as the case has been submitted and briefs filed on both sides, we will, without making this a precedent to justify such neglect of tffií salutary rule ’ in the future, proceed to the consideration of the points suggested by the counsel for the appellant in opposition to the decree.
1'. It is insisted, that as Thompson, was, at the time…
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