Supreme Court of Missouri August 15, 1841 (Dunnica v. Sharp)

Opinion of the Court by

Tompkins, Judge.

In the circuit court Sharp was plaintiff, and had a judgment, to reverse which Colgan appealed to this court.

The action was brought on a covenant, executed on the 1st November, 1818, by Colgan, to bargain and sell to Sharp forty arpens of land in the village of Cote Sans Dessien, “it being the possession which Colgan had purchased of the then late Jesse