Ahl v. Johnson
Supreme Court of the United States
-This was an appeal from the Supreme Court of the Territory of Minnesota. It was a bill filed by Ahl, under the circumstances stated in the opinion of the court. The principal point in the case was, whether time was of the essence of the contract. Mr. Cooper contended that it was. not: HE.
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-This was an appeal from the Supreme Court of the Territory of Minnesota. It was a bill filed by Ahl, under the circumstances stated in the opinion of the court. The principal point in the case was, whether time was of the essence of the contract. Mr. Cooper contended that it was. not: HE. Because time in this case was not of the essence of the contract, as is manifest from the contract itself, as well as from the conduct of the defendant, in demanding the residue of the money since the exhibition of his bill by the said complainant, without ever pretending that he had a right to rescind the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
This is an appeal from the Supreme Court of the Territory of Minnesota, in.a suit in chancery to compel a specific performance of a written contract to convey a certain parcel of-' land described in the bill of complaint, and situated in the village of Stillwater, and county of Washington, in that Territory^. The bill was presented to the district judge at chambers, in the first place, where an order was passed for an injunction, and it.was then duly filed in the office of the clerk of the -District -Court, and on the same day the writ of injunction was issued, returnable to the District…
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