Stewart v. Cross
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court at Montgomery. Heard before tbe Hon. H. Austill. The original bill in this case was filed on tbe 23d September, 1879, by Winnie Cross, the wife of David A. Cross, against John H. Stewart; and sought the specific performance of a contract for the purchase and sale of a small lot or parcel of land near the city of Montgomery, particularly described in a written contract, a copy of wbicb was made an exhibit to tbe bill.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court at Montgomery. Heard before tbe Hon. H. Austill. The original bill in this case was filed on tbe 23d September, 1879, by Winnie Cross, the wife of David A. Cross, against John H. Stewart; and sought the specific performance of a contract for the purchase and sale of a small lot or parcel of land near the city of Montgomery, particularly described in a written contract, a copy of wbicb was made an exhibit to tbe bill. At the time the contract was entered into, the complainant was an unmarried woman, and her name was Winnie Jackson. The bill alleged, that the…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
The testimony is in conflict, whether the purchase price of the lot in controversy was one hundred aud fifty, one hundred and sixty, or one hundred and seventy-five dollars. The original contract is sent up with the record, and we have examined it with some care. Subjected to a magnifying glass, the word sixty is discernible, under the word seventy. Some thing has been written under the word five, in each place where it' occurs. It was possibly the sum repeated in figures, as there remains, not entirely obliterated, what resembles a mark of parenthesis. The paper presents some note-worthy…
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