Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Arkansas Volume 21-23 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ... told Isbell he would furnish some scrip to enter laud (witness thinks part of the laud sold J, and Silvey, as Brooks' agent, let him have it. He let him have three hundred aud seventy dollars. Witness attended to Brooks' laud transactions, and knew more about them than Brooks did himself. After this was through, Brooks asked him if it would not be necessary to have Isbell's wife's relinquishment of dower; Brooks banded the deed to Isbell, which he said he would carry home aud have his wife's dower leleased, aud bring it back in a few days; witness wrote out a reliquishmeut of dower to be executed. Brooks told Silvey, when the deed was hi ought back, to pay him the balance. Brooks told Isbell that he would not enter any more lands for the people living in his, Isbell's, vicinity after Mr. Jouey, hisageut, had carried out what contracts he had made to euter lands in that neighborhood. He thinks Brooks wrote to Joney to that effect, aud sent the letter by Isbell. On the part of the defense it is proven: William H. Swan heard Brooks say, in the presence of Isbell, that he had purchased Isbell's place in Lawrence county, and that Isbell had the deed, and he was to take it home on the same day and sign and acknowledge it. Thomas J. Isbell deposes, that defendant brought home from Jacksonport a blank deed from himself to Brooks. Isbell and 493 his wife both signed it, and called upon him to witness the same, which he did. It appears that a certain paper about a mill, which is also a subject of litigation, was executed on the same day, the twenty-fourth day of June, A. D. 1853; that a portion of the lands included in the deed was entered also on the same day, and this furnishes supporting and corroborating testimony to that of Keith. Keith swears positively to the...