Boze v. Davis' Adm'rs

Hemphill, Ch. J.

This is a suit for specific performance. The petition alleges that the plaintiff, Abednego Boze, about five years since, being comfortably settled on his homestead and farm in the State of Alabama, was solicited by Henry Davis (the husband of Frances, who was a daughter of the plaintiff) to remove with his family to Texas, the said Davis offering as an inducement to said removal, to give petitioner a tract of land in fee, upon which he might settle with his family ; that Davis afterwards and often repeated said solicitation and offer, and the petitioner, though old and infirm,…