Roggencamp v. Seeley

This action is for the specific performance of a writtén contract for the .sale of real estate and to set aside a certain deed executed by defendant Eggleston to defendants Seeley and Kendall. The real contest is as to the contents of the contract of purchase. Plaintiff embodied in his petition the contract, as he alleged it to be, and which was as follows:

*171“BENNETT, January 24th, 1884.

“This receipt is an acknowledgment that I have this day sold to William Roggencamp a part of the following described land for the sum of seven hundred dollars, and the said William Roggencamp has paid as part…