Gilbert v. Patterson

The appellant filed an intervention in a suit pending in the Columbia Chancery Court, but we deem it unnecessary to set out the intervention or any of* the pleadings at length. The only question for the determination of this court is the meaning of the contract with reference to the payment of what was claimed to be appellant’s portion of the $60,000 mentioned in the lease and assignments. And this involves the construction of that paragraph of the contract which reads as follows:

<£Now therefore, in consideration of $1 paid to it by M. G. Haskell, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged,…