Lingle v. Clemens

Suit, for work and labor in building a house. The defendant answered, as to $600 of the demand sued for, that the work was done under a special parol contract, *125by which, it was to be paid for, to the amount of $600, by the conveyance by the defendant to the plaintiff, of one of two designated lots in Lafayette, (giving their numbers,) the title to which was then in Godlove S. Orth, Esq., but which defendant was to procure and convey to plaintiffs when the work should be done, on the plaintiffs’ signifying •to him which one of the two lots he should procure and convey, they having the option;…