Bradford v. President of the Union Bank of Tennessee
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of' Mississippi, sitting as a court of equity. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
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This was an appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of' Mississippi, sitting as a court of equity. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. The counsel for the appellees made the following points, namely: — 1. The defence could not have been made at law in this case, because a court of law has no power to rescind a contract for part failure of consideration, especially on the ground that the inducement to the whole purchase had been defeated by such part failure of title. Greenleaf v. Cook, 2 Wheat. 13 ; 2 Kent, 476; Parham v.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
This is an. appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Mississippi.
The complainants in the court below, the appellants here, filed their bill for the specific performance of an agreement with the defendants for the conveyance of two sections of land in the Chickasaw cession..
The land was to be conveyed for the consideration of the sum of $3,741, payable in instalments, the last payment to be made on the 12th of October, 1847, at which time the deed was to be delivered.
The bill states that at the time of the purchase, the defendants had no title to the…
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