Hummer v. Buerk

Backes, V. C.

This suit is to compel Thomas Buerk, one' of the defendants, to specifically perform his contract to purchase of the complainant his farm,; and to enjoin him from further prosecuting his suit at law for damages for an alleged breach, of the contract.

The complainant is the owner of a small farm made up of six tracts, which the defendant agreed, in writing, to buy and pay. therefor $2,100. On the daj fixed for the transfer the lawyer, employed by the defendant to examine the records, reported that he had found a serious defect in the title of two of the tracts, and also an…