Doscher v. Merritt

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. P. F. Henderson, Acting Associate Justice.

On the 2d day of March, 1922, the defendant, C. D. Merritt, entered into an agreement with the petitioner, Samuel Mercer, by which the former agreed to sell to the latter a lot of land in Charleston, for an agreed consideration which the plaintiff was to pay in installments. This contract of sale has, however, never been recorded. Mercer has since said date paid most, if not all, of the agreed purchase price, and has built a house on the lot in question. On the 31st day of October, 1917, Merritt executed…