Stevenson v. Jackson

Complainant filed her bill for the specific performance of a certain contract executed by Jacob Jackson, and by which he agreed to convey to her a certain eighty acre lot of land. By the contract com*703plainant was to pay for the land eight hundred dollars, included in which was the amount of two mortgages on the. same lands, amounting to between two and three hundred dollars. At the date of the contract Jacob Jackson was a married man and lived upon the land with Nancy Jackson, his wife. Mrs. Jackson did not sign the contract. Complainant owned one of the two mortgages, and assumed payment of…