McAusland v. Pundt
Nebraska Supreme Court
This was an appeal from a decree rendered by Mr. Justice Crotose, sitting in the District Court, for Douglass county. The case will appear, from the allegations of the bill, as follows: “That on and before the twenty-eighth day of May, A. D. 1859, William M. Jones was seized to himself and his heirs of a certain piece or parcel of land, situate in the city of Omaha, and known and described as follows: the west two-thirds of lot number five (5), in block number one hundred…
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This was an appeal from a decree rendered by Mr. Justice Crotose, sitting in the District Court, for Douglass county. The case will appear, from the allegations of the bill, as follows: “That on and before the twenty-eighth day of May, A. D. 1859, William M. Jones was seized to himself and his heirs of a certain piece or parcel of land, situate in the city of Omaha, and known and described as follows: the west two-thirds of lot number five (5), in block number one hundred and twenty-one (121). And your orator further shows that the said Jones, being desirous to dispose of the said real…
1Opinion of the CourtCkounse, J.
This is an appeal from a decree rendered by myself, ■ sitting in the District Court for Douglas county, dismissing complainant’s bill. This court -being unanimous in sustaining the decision there made, I will briefly state some of the reasons inducing jt.
The suit was brought in the name of Alexander Mc-Ausland, and revived in the name of his children, the present complainants, to enforce the specific performance of a written contract entered into between one Hughes and himself, for the sale of a certain building lot in the city of Omaha.
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