Abby v. Dexter

The.insufficiency of the complaint to support the judgment, being one of the grounds upon which a reversal of the judgment is urged, it becomes necessary to set forth so much of the complaint as is pertinent to a discussion of this question; The complaint alleges that for a valuable consideration the following contract was entered into between the parties, to wit:

“This agreement, made between W. H. Dexter, party of the first part, and Jacob Abby, party of the second part, on the 21st day of August, A. D. 1894, witnesseth:

“That the said party'of the first part has this day made a deed to the…