Derrett v. Bowman
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Carroll County, in Equity. The bill of complaint in this case was filed by the appellee as purchaser to obtain from the appellant, as vendor, the specific performance of a written contract for the sale of a tract of land.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Carroll County, in Equity. The bill of complaint in this case was filed by the appellee as purchaser to obtain from the appellant, as vendor, the specific performance of a written contract for the sale of a tract of land. The Court (Jones, J.) decreed that the defendant should by a good and sufficient deed, convey to the complainant the tract of land in question, and that the complainant should forthwith pay, or bring into Court to he paid, to the defendant, the sum of two hundred and sixty-six dollars and twenty-five cents, the same being ascertained to he…
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
On the 7th of May, 1878, the appellant, by contract in writing, agreed to sell to the appellee, ten acres of land, ■at twenty-five dollars per acre.
On the same day, the appellee gave his note with Eli Warner as security, for the purchase money, and took possession of the property. He immediately began to ■clear the land, and sowed part of it in grain. Afterwards he laid a stone foundation for a dwelling-house, and continued in possession, until May, 1879, when, during his ■absence, the appellant entered and took possession of the land.
This is a bill by the appellee as purchaser, to enforce a…
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- Pratt v. CarrollSupreme Court of the United States · 1814
- Taylor v. LongworthSupreme Court of the United States · 1840
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