Jones v. Wells

This record shows that Wells sold Jones a piece of laud by executory contract dated April 10, 1866, Jones agreeing to pay one thousand three hundred dollars in four annual payments of three hundred and twenty-five dollars each,, with interest, and also “well and faithfully in due season pay or cause to be paid all taxes and assessments, ordinary and extraordinary, for any purpose whatever, upon the said premises or appurtenances.” The controversy arises upon this clause of the contract, and relates to a tax which wasthén overdue and unpaid, and which Wells insists it was verbally agreed Jones…