Levy v. Cox

The Chief-Justice delivered the opinion of the court:

The appellant brought an action of ejectment in the Circuit Court of Leon county, against the appellee, for the recovery of a lot in the city of Tallahassee.

Verdict and judgment for defendant.

It appeared from the evidence in the court below that the defendant contracted in writing with one Kuhns for the purchase of the lot in controversy for seven hundred dollars. The agreement was as follows:

“ State of Florida, )

Leon county. )

“Articles of agreement made this, the thirty-first day of March, A. D. 1870, between William Kuhns and Robert Cox,…