Baldwin v. . Palmer

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] The several objections taken on the trial below, and upon which the nonsuit was granted and afterwards sustained, are reducible to this one, viz., that the agreement on which the plaintiff relies for the reimbursement of the money expended by him in the payment of an assessment was a part of the agreement for the sale to him of the land, and was by parol, not reduced to writing, and therefore void by the statute. (2 R.S., 134, § 8.)

Although the agreement has…