Payne v. Neuval

This is an appeal from a judgment for plaintiffs and from an order denying the motion of defendants for a new trial. The action was one to quiet title, and around a certain document set forth in the complaint cluster all of the problems presented by this appeal. The instrument in question was executed by the grantors of plaintiffs in favor of defendants’ decedent. It is in substantially the following language:—■

“In consideration of one dollar to me paid by P. Nivard Neuval, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, and the further sum of twenty cents per ton, I, the undersigned, grant to…