Sturgeon v. Schaumburg

The case comes to this court by appeal from a judgment on demurrer to the petition. The suit was founded upon a written contract under seal between William Chambers, William Christy, and Thomas Wright, dated Aug. 30, 1830. The parties had previously made a partition among themselves of a tract of land held by them as tenants in common under Louis Labeaume, and the general tenor of the contract related to costs and expenses to be incurred in prosecuting or defending the title to the lands so divided in partition, and to the equalization of losses which might be sustained by reason of defects…