Au Gres Boom Co. v. Whitney

This is a suit for the specific performance of a parol* contract for the conveyance of lands, which, having been originally made with other parties, has come to the complainant by assignment. It is admitted that the contract was made, and that the land has been paid for; but the defendant insists that the inducement on his part to enter into the contract, was the purchase, by the same parties, of a considerable quantity of other lands, for which credit was given, but which are not paid for, and the purchasers having become insolvent, he is unable to enforce payment. And he insists that the…