Elliott v. Leake

Opinion of the court delivered by

Edwards, Judge.

This was an action of assumpsit, brought by Leake against Elliott. Pleas, non assumpsit and statute oflimi-tations, and issue on each.

Eighteen or twenty years ago, Elliott and Leake resided in the State of Kentucky; and while there, and about that time, Elliott sold Leake twenty acres of land, for two hundred dollars. The contract was never reduced to writing. Leake paid Elliott the two hundred dollars, the price of the land. In 1834, Elliott admitted that he “had got from Leake two hundred dollars* for land in Kentucky-* and that he had never…