Berdanatti v. Sexton

The Chancellor:

— On the 29th of Augúst, 1871, the defendant P. J. Sexton filed his original bill in this court against Alberti Inchiesa di Camerana, Joseph Berdanatti and Eugenie his wife, and Consul R. Bass. This bill alleged, in substance, that in April, 1871, Ella, the wife of "the defendant Alberti, died in Sumner county, Tennessee, possessed of 360 acres of land in said county. That she and her husband had previously, on the 11th of November, 1870, entered into a written contract with complainant for “the erection of a house on said land, and that complainant "had partially erected the…