Metzger v. Huntington

On the 14th day of December, 1887, the appellee, acting for himself and the other heirs of Jonas *503Huntington, deceased, entered into a contract witli Frank E. Little and Lawrence H. Wilson, according to the terms of which Little and Wilson were to purchase of appellee about two hundred acres of land, situated on Wayzata Bay, Lake Minnetonka, in the State of Minnesota, for the sum of fifty thousand dollars. This land was to be platted into lots, four of which were .to be retained by appellee, for which five thousand dollars were to be allowed as part payment of the purchase-price, leaving…