Pledger v. Garrison
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from" Logan Circuit Court, in Chancery. Lion. J. H. Rogers, Circuit Judge. There was no such contract of sale, payment of purchase money, part performance, and entry into possession as would take the case out of the statute of frauds. 8 Ark., 278; 20 lb., 550; 19 lb., 24; 3 Paige, If,78; 2 Paige, 177; 10 lb., 535; 1 Hoff., 470 \ 5 Wend., 61¡8; 1 Ark., 391; 16 lb., 466 ; 21 Ark., 533; Story Eq. Jar., sec. 760; 1 McMul-len Eq.,817; 1 Rich.
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APPEAL from" Logan Circuit Court, in Chancery. Lion. J. H. Rogers, Circuit Judge. There was no such contract of sale, payment of purchase money, part performance, and entry into possession as would take the case out of the statute of frauds. 8 Ark., 278; 20 lb., 550; 19 lb., 24; 3 Paige, If,78; 2 Paige, 177; 10 lb., 535; 1 Hoff., 470 \ 5 Wend., 61¡8; 1 Ark., 391; 16 lb., 466 ; 21 Ark., 533; Story Eq. Jar., sec. 760; 1 McMul-len Eq.,817; 1 Rich. JEq., 131; 5 Mumf., 308; 4 Black/., 9/; 21 Ark., 277; 15 lb., Cain v. Leslie; 26 lb., 344'> 84 lb., 663; 39 lb., 430. There was such a sale, payment…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
This bill was exhibited by Garrison against his father-in-law, nominally to quiet his title to and possession of a tract of land, but in reality to compel the specific execution of a contract of purchase. It alleged that the defendant had, ton years before, sold to the plaintiff forty acres of wild and uninclosed land, described in the bill by metes and bounds, for $600; that the terms of this contract were not manifested by any writing, but that the plaintiff had been put in possession under it and had held possession ever since, had paid for the land in full, and had made valuable…
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