Norton v. Colgrove

The plaintiff’s case is this: that in August, 1870, in a land trade between defendant and plaintiff, defendant bound himself by a written contract to convey to him a certain piece of land subject to six thousand dollars incumbrance; she to pay off a large sum over and above the six thousand dollars which was then a lien on the land; that this excess was to be paid on the first of April 1871; that the land was conveyed by defendant to plaintiff’s wife at plaintiff’s request on the day last named, but that the defendant did not pay off the- excess of the incumbrances as agreed, and plaintiff…