Chaney v. Coleman
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Denton. Tried below before Hon. F. E. Finer. J. E. Coleman instituted this suit against L. J. Chaney, in the District Court of Denton County, Texas, for the purpose of rescinding an exchange of lands made by him and the said Chaney on September 3, 1886. It seems that on September 3, 1886, Coleman traded a tract of land in Denton County, containing 117 acres, less two acres, for a tract of land in Sumner County, Tennessee, belonging to Chaney and containing 90…
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Appeal from Denton. Tried below before Hon. F. E. Finer. J. E. Coleman instituted this suit against L. J. Chaney, in the District Court of Denton County, Texas, for the purpose of rescinding an exchange of lands made by him and the said Chaney on September 3, 1886. It seems that on September 3, 1886, Coleman traded a tract of land in Denton County, containing 117 acres, less two acres, for a tract of land in Sumner County, Tennessee, belonging to Chaney and containing 90 acres, more or less, and received 8300 in said exchange as a difference in. the values of the two tracts. Afterward Coleman…
1Opinion of the Court
HENRY, Associate Justice.
—This suit was brought by appellee.. The' petition charges that plaintiff on the 2d day of September, 1886,. owned and then conveyed to the defendant a tract of land in the county of Denton, State of Texas, which it particularly described; that the consideration of the conveyance was a tract of land in Sumner County, Tennessee, which was conveyed by defendant to plaintiff, and $200 in. money paid to plaintiff by defendant; that the quality and value of the Tennessee land were misrepresented to 23laintiff by defendant, as was also* the character of the improvements…
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