Grindstaff v. Mather

STOKES, Justice.

On January 6, 1943, the appellee, John T. Mather, and the appellant, R. B. Grindstaff, entered into a written contract for the sale by appellee to appellant of six labors of Stonewall County school land located in Cochran County, comprising slightly in excess of 1000 acres. No cash payment was required but the contract provided that appellant should take immediate possession of the land, grub and break 465 acres of new land, prepare for planting 235 acres already in a state of cultivation, and plant the entire seven hundred acres principally to cotton, the portion not planted…