Fuller v. Pauley

It appears from the pleadings and evidence in this case that W. T. Searles had contracted to purchase from the state a section of what is generally known as “school land,” or a “school section,” and had such written evidences or contracts as are issued in transactions of this character between the state and a purchaser of school lands. On October 1,1887, he sold the land to one J. M. Pauley, the price agreed upon being $12.50 per acre, or $8,000 for the entire tract. Pauley was to pay the amount then unpaid to the state, $4,320, and to pay in cash to Searles $3,680. Of this last mentioned sum…