Pollard v. M'Clain

The CftiEF Justice

delivered the opinion.

This was an action of covenant. The declaration was *25the 3d of May, 1819, and, in substance, alledges, that ort the 4tii of February, 1819, the plaintiff and defendant entered into a written agreement, whereby the plaintiff sold to the defendant twenty-four and one quarter acres of land, at the price of twenty dollars per acre, of which the defendant was not to have possession till March, 1820; and the plaintiff avers that he is ready and will\ng to convey the land aforesaid to the defendant, and will deliver the possession by the first of March, 1820,…