Stanley v. Brannon

This is a bill in chancery certified from the liandolph Circuit Court. The object of the bill is to correct a *206mistake in a title-bond as to the description of the land, ano to obtain a specific performance of the contract.

The bill states that the complainant, in 1833, bought of John A. Brannon, one of the defendants, a certain tract of land, paid part of the purchase-money at the time, and gave his notes for the residue; that the complainant took from the vendor a bond, conditioned for a title on payment of the purchase-money; that there is a mistake in the condition of the bond as to the…