Nickerson v. Fithian Land Co.

The appellant, Monroe Nickerson, filed his hill in the chancery court praying for specific performance of an alleged contract of purchase of certain land from appellees. The writing upon which appellant sought specific performance is here set out:

“Received from Monroe Nickerson the sum of nine dollars to apply on purchase of land on the south side of the town of Darling, to he measured later and paid for at the rate of thirty dollars per acre.”

*723The complainant relied upon this writing, and oral testimony, to secure the relief prayed for in the bill. We think the lower court was correct in…