Shaw v. . Williams

The plaintiff, her sister Jane S., who had intermarried with one W. W. Graham, and her brother, John W. Jenkins, being tenants in common of an estate in fee in a house and lot in the town of Fayetteville, the latter, with the consent and by the verbal authority of the others, contracted with the defendant for the sale of the premises to him for the sum of nine hundred dollars. A deed, bearing date September 3d, 1883, was executed and delivered to the defendant some two years thereafter, conveying the lot, and in the usual form acknowledging payment of the consideration, and releasing the…