Dulin v. Prince

This writ brings before us the record of a decree of the circuit court of McLean county, directing the specific performance of a contract for the conveyance of a twenty-acre tract of land therein described. The contract was reduced to writing, and the consideration for the conveyance of the twenty-acre tract was, that “said Prince agrees to procure for said Dulin a good right to the north-east quarter of section 26, township 13, range 23, in Trego county, Kansas, as a homestead.” It is contended, on behalf of plaintiffs in error, that the defendant in error never was in a condition to comply…