Stearns v. Dubois

Suit by appellant, against appellee, for the price and value of land sold and conveyed. The complaint contained three paragraphs, two on special contracts, and one on the quantum valebat. The appellant answered in four paragraphs, each to the whole complaint; the first being the general denial; the second averring that the three paragraphs of the complaint were all based upon one transaction, and that the land mentioned was sold by the acre, at sixty dollars per acre, be the quantity more or less, which was to be ascertained by a survey, etc.; the third, payment; and the fourth, set-off.

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