Brumfield v. Palmer

— This was a bill in equity for the specific performance of a contract for the sale of land, and to enforce a vendor’s lien. The material facts of the case as they appear by the pleadings, exhibits, and depositions, are the following:

*228On the 25th day of December, 1838,, Brumfield purchased of Perry a lot of ground in Indianapolis at the price of 1,200 dollars ; he paid 400 dollars in hand, gave his note for 400 dollars payable in one year, and another note for 400 dollars payable in two years. Perry executed to Brumfield a title-bond, conditioned for the conveyance to him of the title in two…