Tyler v. Teter

Lynch, Judge :

After repeated but abortive efforts on bis part to obtain a-conditional contract for tbe purchase of a tract of land in Ohio 'county known as the Nicholas home farm, Hiram Teter entered into an oral contract with Augustus Tyler, the husband of one of the Nicholas heirs, whereby he agreed with Tyler to pay one half the profits to accrue from a sale of the land in case he obtained an option on the whole tract or any, interest in it. Tyler secured an option on an undivided moiety in t-he name of Teter, who, after an extension of the time limit through Tyler’s influence, caused the…