San Mateo Land Co. v. Elem

KENNEDY, District Judge.

The defendant in error, plaintiff in the court below, sued the plaintiff in error, there defendant, to recover the sum of $5,000 paid by the plaintiff as a part of the purchase price of certain lands. The proposed purchase and sale of these lands was evidenced by a' written contract between plaintiff and defendant. The real estate so agreed to be conveyed was situate in the county of Sandoval, state of New Mexico, and was set out in the contract by general lines of boundary, the southern boundary line of which was coincident with the northern boundary line of another…