Harvey v. Daniels
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Humphreys county. Hon. S. F. Davis, Judge. Action by J. B. Daniels against Robert Harvey. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Daniels sold Harvey, verbally, a house and lot in Bel-zoni for the sum of three hundred dollars. Ten dollars ($10) was paid in cash and the balance of three hundred dollars, was to be paid monthly until the whole sum was paid.
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Appeal from circuit court of Humphreys county. Hon. S. F. Davis, Judge. Action by J. B. Daniels against Robert Harvey. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Daniels sold Harvey, verbally, a house and lot in Bel-zoni for the sum of three hundred dollars. Ten dollars ($10) was paid in cash and the balance of three hundred dollars, was to be paid monthly until the whole sum was paid. Thereafter Harvey did make payments on the purchase money and when he had paid him (Daniels) two hundred and eighty three dollars, tendered him the additional seventeen dollars and demanded his deed.…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
Appellee, J. B. Daniels, brought ejectment in the circuit court' of Humphreys county against appellant, Robert Harvey, for a house and lot situated in the town of Belzoni, and for damages for the use and occupation of the same. Appellee recovered judgment for the property, and also rental as damages for its use and occupation from the time appellant went into possession until the trial of the cause, from which pudgment appellant prosecutes this appeal.
Appellee and appellant entered into a verbal contract of sale by the terms of which the former agreed to sell the latter the lot involved in…
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