'i 1 From Rutherford. j The bill set forth, that about ten years prior to the filing thereof, the complainant contracted with the defendant for the purchase of a tract of land at the price of two dollars per acre, to be conveyed when the complainant should pay for the same.
Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently October 1955
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Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
¶1I am unwilling to dismiss this bill, because I think it states a strong ground of equity, and whatever uncertainty there is as to the number of acres, or the amount of the plaintiff's account, may be reduced to a certainty by a survey and by a reference to the clerk. It is a circumstance entitled to weight that the plaintiff has been allowed to remain in possession for so great a length of time, and to make improvements. The bill is not drawn with sufficient precision, but I think it should go to a hearing.
¶2And of this opinion were the rest of the Court; and now on the hearing:
