Marsh v. Despard

Miller, Judge:

By contract in writing, bearing date on the 10th day of February, 1872, Burton Despard, by James M. Lj^on, his agent, sold to appellee James W. Marsh, a tract of eighty-two acres-of land, situate on the waters of Grass Bun, in Harrison County, (described in the contract by metes and bounds,) at nine dollars per acre, fifty dollars of which was paid in cash, by Marsh at the date of the contract; fifty dollars thereof was to be paid when Despard and wife should convey the land to Marsh by deed with covenants of general warranty; the residue of the purchase money was to be paid in…