Samuel Nelson

“ The strong ground against enforcing a contract, where the consideration is so inadequate as to render it a hard bargain, and an unequal and unreasonable bargain, is that, if a court of equity acts at all, it must act ex vigore, and carry the contract into execution with unmitigated severity ”

“ For these reasons, thus briefly given, I am obliged to dissent from the decision in this case.
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