Alexander v. Herriford

Opinion or the Court bv

Judge Hardin:

Oh tbe 19tb of June, 1868, tbe appellants, R. M. Alexander and Ellen B. Alexander, bis wife, sold and executed tbeir deed of conveyance to tbe appellee, for two tracts of land, for tbe gross price of $10,000, of wbicb $7,000 were paid down, and tbe *454appellee gave to Alexander his two notes for the residue — one of them for $1,000 payable at its date, and the other for $2,000, payable one year thereafter — the quantity of neither tracts of the land being stated in the deed, nor were the tracts described by metes and bounds, but only designated by name, and…