Ayres v. Gallup

Plaintiffs sued defendant for an alleged balance due for purchase money of land sold him by a firm of Ayres, Learned & Ayres, to whose rights plaintiffs claim to have succeeded. On the trial below it was found that no legal contract of sale had been made, and the court rendered judgment in favor of defendant for the payments he had made, as paid without consideration. The case comes up on error. \

The only evidence of any contract consisted of an entry in the books of Ayres, Learned & Co. and of two receipts for purchase money, signed by that firm. The land was not *14fully described in either óf…