California Court of Appeal November 29, 1912, Civ. No. 979. (McManus v. Patch)

BURNETT, J.

By a written contract plaintiff agreed to purchase of defendants for the sum of eight hundred dollars a ten-acre tract of land in Modoc County. At the time of the execution of the agreement he paid them four hundred dollars in cash and it was provided in said contract that the entire purchase price with interest thereon at the rate of eight per cent per annum should be paid on or