Martin v. Newell

L. A. Smith, Sr., J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This case comes here from the Chancery Court of Perry County, wherein appellant was denied the relief sought —the final decree sustaining demurrers by appellees and dismissing the original and amended bills of complaint.

The facts of the case, as they are recited in the original bill and admitted by demurrers, are that appellant appeared before the county board of supervisors at its March 1937 term and contracted to buy certain lands at the disposal of the county, for the sum of nine hundred dollars; one hundred and fifty dollars cash,…