Richard v. Boyd

This is an appeal from an order of the court below overruling a demurrer. It appears by the bill that complainant’s father entered into an agreement with defendant for the purchase of a tract of land in Lewis county, State of New York, towards which purchase defendant furnished $5,000 in money; receiving as the evidence of the transaction a receipt from the father of complainant, as follows:

“Received of James A. Boyd five thousand dollars ($5,000) in full for the purchase of 1,000 acres of timber land located in Lewis county, State of New York. If I fail to get the land, the money to be…