Johnston v. Trippe

This is a' bill filed by complainant against defendant to enforce the specific performance of a certain conditional or optional contract for the sale of land. The bill, after stating some preliminary correspondence- and negotiation between complainant and defendant, relative to the sale of certain land in White county, Georgia, by the latter to the former, alleges that in January, 1887, defendant prepared and executed the following written instrument:

“ Georgia, FyMon County. This agreement witnesseth, that the undersigned B. B. Trippe, of said state and county, agrees that if said J. Lamb…