White v. Northup

Bond, C. J.,

delivered, the opinion of the Court

Thomas W. H. White, since deceased, referred to in -the testimony as Captain White, sold to- John Bowden and Company standing timber owned by him in Wicomico County, and upon receipt of the first payment on account of the purchase price, signed and delivered to the buyers a paper evidencing the transaction, which, in that part involved in this controversy, reads:

“Received of John Bowden & Company the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), same being a part payment for all the timber on my swamp’ piece of land binding on the Chatham Road, except…