Trippensee v. Rice

By their bill of complaint plaintiffs seek to enforce a parol agreement by which defendants were to purchase certain lands at a scavenger sale in the names of plaintiffs, and plaintiffs ask for an accounting. A motion to dismiss the bill for failure to state á sufficient case was granted. From the decree entered accordingly, plaintiffs appeal.

The bill alleges that plaintiffs were owners of the two lots involved, which had been sold by them on land contracts, upon which contracts there were unpaid balances. Plaintiffs claim that they entered into a parol agreement with the defendants on May…