Baker v. Custer

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.;

The plaintiff sued to recover on the following written obligation signed by the defendant:

“This is to certify that there is due.Jrom the undersigned, Bessie Custer, to George L. Baker, the sum of seventeen hundred and ninety-nine dollars, said sum to be paid to the said George L. Baker, upon the title to the southwest quarter of section thirty-two (32) township thirty (30) south, range thirty-three (33) west 6th p. m. Haskell county, Kansas, being made a good straight merchantable title. Dated this 16th Dec., 1915.”

Judgment was rendered in…