Watson v. Crutcher
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Woodruff Circuit Court in Chancery. Crutcher brought suit against Watson to • compel specific performance of a written contract to convey, among other lands, the north half of the southeast quarter of section three in township six north, range three west, less twenty-five acres off the south side thereof.
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Appeal from Woodruff Circuit Court in Chancery. Crutcher brought suit against Watson to • compel specific performance of a written contract to convey, among other lands, the north half of the southeast quarter of section three in township six north, range three west, less twenty-five acres off the south side thereof. The decree of the court was in plaintiff’s favor, adjudging that the title to the lands described in the complaint be vested in plaintiff, and that the line cutting off the said twenty-five acres be run parallel with the south boundary line of the north half of the northeast…
1Opinion of the CourtCockriee, C. J.
The appellant concedes the appellee’s right to a specific performance. There is no con- . troversy as to the quantity of land he should convey— the location of twenty-five acres of it in the north half of the southeast quarter gives rise to the only controversy. The appellant maintains and undertook to prove that it should be laid off in an irregular form. The description, as given in the written obligation to convey, after the call for other tracts by legal subdivisions, is as follows’: North half of southeast quarter of section three, in a given township and range, “less twenty-five acres…
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