Harris v. Dacus

Appellant brought this suit in the lower court to enforce specific performance of a contract under which he alleged appellees, A. P. Dacus and P. M. Dacus, through their agent, W. M. Burns, agreed to sell appellant a 24% acre tract in Mississippi county, Arkansas. Appellee, J. H. Doan, was made a defendant, it being-alleged that he had obtained a conveyance of the land from A. P. Dacus, P. M. Dacus and Ohloe Dacus, with full knowledge that these parties had already agreed to sell same to appellant, and- appellant prayed that this conveyance to appellee Doan be canceled.

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