Bonner v. Herrick
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford county: Of October and November Term 1881, No. 113. Ejectment by John Bonner against Charles A. Herrick, Daniel Herrick and George Herrick, for seventy-live acres of land in tlie townships of Cambridge and Iiockdale. On the trial, before Ciiuroii, r.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford county: Of October and November Term 1881, No. 113. Ejectment by John Bonner against Charles A. Herrick, Daniel Herrick and George Herrick, for seventy-live acres of land in tlie townships of Cambridge and Iiockdale. On the trial, before Ciiuroii, r. J., the facts of the case appeared to he as follows: — On May 4th 1876 the plaintiff Bonner, being the owner of a certain hotel known as the Bonner house in the borough of Cambridge, and the defendant Charles A. Herrick, being the owner of the farm in controversy, entered into articles of agreement…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Merour
This action of ejectment was to enforce specific performance of contract. It is based on an agreement between the parties for an exchange of properties, in which the plaintiff was to take the farm of the defendant, and the latter the hotel property of the plaintiff; and the defendant was to pay the sum of $1,200, *225as the agreed difference in value between the properties. Possession was taken by each party of the property he was entitled to have under the contract. Afterwards, the defendant, alleging fraud in obtaining the contract from him, and also the inability of the plaintiff to give him,…
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