White v. Flora and Cherry

delivered the following opinion of the court.

The bill charges that a grant issued to Lazarus Flora, by the state of North Carolina, for 274 acres of land, by whom previous to his death, the same was devised to the defendant Jesse Flora; that Jesse Flora not knowing where the land was situated, applied to the complainant, and proposed to give him the one half of the tract if he would find it, and be at the expence of investigating the title; and to sell him the other half at a price to be fixed by valuers chosen for that purpose, payable in horses; and that a contract was made and reduced to…