Firebaugh v. Wittenberg

On July 10, 1919, the defendant in error, Charles W. Wittenberg, and the plaintiff in error, Clinton C. Firebaugh, entered into a contract which recited that the defendant in error had that day sold to plaintiff in error a tract of land in Shelby county therein described, containing forty acres, for the sum of $12,020, — $2000 of which was paid in cash and the balance of $10,020 was to be paid in cash on March 1, 1920, — and the defendant in error agreed to convey the land by good and sufficient warranty deed and merchantable abstract of title on the day of the final settlement. On March 2,…