Wilson v. Carpenter

This was a proceeding by the appellant, . against the appellee, to enforce the specific performance of a contract concerning real estate.

The complaint was in two paragraphs.

The first paragraph alleged, that, on the 6th day of January, 1874, the appellant was the owner of several tracts of land, situate in Shelby county, Indiana, amounting in the aggregate to two hundred and fourteen acres, and being desirous of obtaining loans of money from time to time to carry on his business, agreed with the appellee, that, in consideration of his, the appellee’s, undertaking and prom*497ising to endorse for…