Tennessee Supreme Court January 15, 1828 (Patton v. M'Clure)

CatRon, J.

The bill charges, that in 1813 Bennet Searcy made a verbal contract with M’Clure for ten feet of ground, lying on the public square in Clarksville, extending [336] about sixty feet back, part of lot No. 20, for which said Searcy was to give M’Clure whatever the ground was reasonably worth.

That M’Clure was desirous Searcy should become his neighbor, and that Searcy might er.