SHAEFFER v. BLAIR

No. 178.

149 U.S. 248 (1893)

SHAEFFER v. BLAIR.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 1, 1893.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. C.D. Martin and Mr. R.A. Harrison for appellant.

Mr. Charles O. Tichenor for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE GRAY, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The decision of this case turns upon the construction of the contract of February 4, 1884, by which the parties agreed to buy certain lands and to sell them again for the joint benefit of both.

The provisions of that contract were, in substance, that those lands, in the greater part of which Shaeffer already had an equitable title under...

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