Lloyd v. Lee

This was a suit in equity, commenced by George M. Lee, in the Marshall Circuit Court, against Andrew T. Shurts, Peter W. Mellick, David W. Danley, James Wilson and Theodore Lloyd, to compel the specific performance of an agreement to convey fifty acres of land. It appears, that in June, 1855, one Jared Lee sold the S. E. 19, 13 N. 9 E. to Shurts, and he, to secure the payment of the purchase money, gave his note for $1,649.87, with ten per cent interest, and executed a mortgage on the land. Afterward, appellee, the son of Jared Lee, purchased of Shurts fifty acres off of the west side of the…