Jasper v. Hamilton

Judge Ewing

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

On the 27th of February, 1831, Hamilton sold to Jasper, his right to a hundred and fifty acres of land on Pitman’s creek, at and for the consideration of two hundred and fifty dollars; of which one hundred dollars was paid down, and the note of Jasper given for the residue.

The land sold was embraced in a military survey of seven hundred acres, patented to Flowree; andj the right of Hamilton consisted in a written contract, which had been entered into between Trevis Grigsby, as one of the heirs of Flowree, and John Williams; by which Williams…