Lobdell v. . Lobdell

This action is brought to compel a specific performance of an alleged parol agreement between the Plaintiff’s father and the Defendant’s father, by which the former agreed to convey to the latter a piece of land. The complaint states the agreement as follows: “ That on or about the first day of November, 1846, Pliny Lobdell, for a good and valuable consideration, paid by Seymour Lobdell to said Pliny, sold, and, by parol, conveyed to said Seymour Lobdell all that certain piece or parcel of land,” describing it by metes and bounds, “ containing about fourteen acres of land, more or less ; and…