Weed v. Beebe
Supreme Court of Vermont
[In Chancery.] Appeal from the court of chancery. The orator alleged in his bill, that on thp seventeenth of February, 1843, he sold to the defendants, Beebe and Orcutt, certain premises in Charleston, at the price of three hundred dollars, for which he took their written agreement to pay two hundred dollars in labor, and to pay the residue in money, or by paying a note, which John M. Beebe held against Jedediah Skinner; that at the request of Orcutt, he executed the deed of…
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[In Chancery.] Appeal from the court of chancery. The orator alleged in his bill, that on thp seventeenth of February, 1843, he sold to the defendants, Beebe and Orcutt, certain premises in Charleston, at the price of three hundred dollars, for which he took their written agreement to pay two hundred dollars in labor, and to pay the residue in money, or by paying a note, which John M. Beebe held against Jedediah Skinner; that at the request of Orcutt, he executed the deed of the premises to the defendant Beebe, but took no mortgage to secure the performance of the agreement in reference to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Poland, J.
The facts in this case, as shown by the bill, answers and evidence, seem to be substantially the following. On the seventeenth day of February, 1843, the orator contracted to sell to Beebe and Orcutt certain premises in the town of Charleston, of which he was the owner, for the sum of three hundred dollars, — two hundred dollars of which was to be paid by building a barn and finishing a house for the orator, and one hundred dollars to be paid in money, or by taking up a note for that sum, which one John M. Beebe, father of Willard M., held…
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