Camp v. Camp
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Chancery Court at Talladega. This bill is filed by Larkin Camp, and seeks the rescission of a contract, for the purchase of a half section- of land. The complainant alledges, that he is a cousin of the defendant, and being desirous to settle himself on such a tract, as had sufficient good land for his means, he called on the defendant to aid him in purchasing.
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Error to the Chancery Court at Talladega. This bill is filed by Larkin Camp, and seeks the rescission of a contract, for the purchase of a half section- of land. The complainant alledges, that he is a cousin of the defendant, and being desirous to settle himself on such a tract, as had sufficient good land for his means, he called on the defendant to aid him in purchasing. The defendant offered to sell him the tract, which he afterwards purchased, and complainant desiring to examine the-land, it was shown to him by the defendant. One of the lines was not marked by the surveyor, more than…
1Opinion of the CourtOrmond, J.
— The bill prays a, recision of the contract, on the ground, that it was obtained by the fraudulent representations of the defendant. The facts are, that the complainant being about to purchase land of the defendant, made an examination of it with him for the purpose of ascertaining whether it contained a sufficient quantity of valuable land to suit him. On one of the boundary lines of the tract, half a mile in length, no marks of the surveyor could be discovered but one third of the distance from one of the corners. That portion of the line not marked, was bounded by the lands of Colonel…
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