Paris v. Haley

This action was by a vendor against a vendee, to compel specific performance by the vendee of a parol agreement concerning land.

The plaintiff avers that he has the fee simple title to 'certain lots which he specifically describes, consisting of six lots in the town of Mount Yernon and one lot adjoining the town particularly described by metes and bounds; that on the 19th day of November, 1861, he verbally sold these lots and land to defendant for the sum of $3,000, for which sum the defendant gave his three notes, all dated on the day of the sale — one payable on the 2oth of December…