McCowen v. Pew

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of the defendant and an order denying plaintiffs' motion for a new trial. The plaintiffs being the owners of a certain tract of land in Mendocino County near Willits, on the sixteenth day of October, 1899, executed an agreement, as parties of the first part, and defendant J.W. Pew, as party of the second part, whereby "for value received by said party of the first part from said party of the second part, and to induce said party of the second part to undertake the disposition of said property, said party of the first part has granted unto said party of…