Sheldon v. Estate of Rice

The sum demanded in this controversy is claimed to be -due for advances made by the firm of T. P. Sheldon & Go., of which the claimant is survivor, for the benefit of George W. Bice in bis life-time, under a written contract bearing date August 10, 1857, and to which T. P. Sheldon & Go. were the parties of the first part, and David S. Walbridge and George W. Bice the parties of the second part. In tbis contract it was recited that “the above parties have *298agreed to purchase certain lands which are owned or pretended to be- owned by the estate of Justus Burdick and the Farmers & Mechanics’…