Owens v. . Phelps

This case was before the Court on the plaintiffs' appeal, at February Term, 1885, but not upon the points presented in the present transcript.

The case is simply this: William A. Owens, the ancestor of the plaintiffs, his heirs-at-law, in his lifetime entered into an agreement with the defendant Uriah H. Phelps, for the purchase of the tract of land described in the complaint, for which, in 1857, he gave his three several notes, payable at one, two and three years, each for the sum of $600, and took from the vendor his bond to make title when the purchase money was paid, entering at once into…