Robbins v. Selby

This action was originally brought in equity for the purpose of rescinding a contract of sale or exchange of real estate. The issue was afterwards changed, making it an action to recover damages sustained by the alleged fraud and deceit of the defendant, and asking to *409have the amount of damages so awarded made a vendor’s lien upon the property conveyed by the plaintiffs to the defendant which still remained in the defendant’s hands. The plaintiffs were owners of two hundred and sixty-five acres of farm land and certain town property in Madison County, Iowa, and the defendant was the owner of…