Hurst v. Hensley

— On the 16th day of April, 1838, Fischli entered into a written contract with Hensley, by which the former agreed to sell to the latter a certain lot of land in Jeffersonville for 1,200 dollars payable in two years. Fischli was to make a deed in fee-simple, with general warranty, to Hensley, upon the payment of the purchase-money. Hensley executed his note for the money, and took possession of the lot. Before the expiration of the two years Fischli died, without having made a deed, the purchase-money remaining unpaid. Fischli left a will, by which he devised all his real estate to his…