Webster v. Gray

This bill is filed to obtain the specific performance of a parol contract made in 1866, whereby Webster was to select swamp lands and furnish descriptions of them to Gray, who had a road contract with the state on which he proposed to reserve and apply such lands; and Webster was to have an interest of one-fourth in the lands so obtained of the state.

The first selection was made in the spring of 1866, and about 2,000 acres entered under it. In the fall of that year nearly the same amount of other lands was selected, but not finally secured.

In July, 1866, Gray signed a paper agreeing to sell…