Hedges v. Kerr

Judge Marshall

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This action is brought upon a contract for’a sale of the right and interest of five out of seven heirs of James Kerr, in a tract of land, formerly the property of then-ancestor, at the rate of seventy-five dollars per acre. The five heirs, for whom the contract was made, were infants *527at the time, and Hedges, the purchaser, agreed to pay, for their use, six per cent, per annum upon the entire purchase money, of five-sevenths of the tract in full of rent, and each or all five, on their arrival at age, have the privilege of electing “either to…