Pratt v. Canfield

The plaintiff, Pratt, sued the defendant in the Common Pleas Court'of Linn county, to enforce the specific performance of a contract between the parties, by which plaintiff’ sold and defendant purchased the n w qr. of section 14, township 57 of range 21, in Linn county, Missouri.

The contract was .in writing. The price agreed upon was $1,280, to be paid in three payments, the first of which •$640, was to be made on the 1st day of January, 1871, and the balance in two equal annual payments, one on the 1st day of April, 1872, and the other on the 1st day of April, 1873, both to bear interest…