Baldwin v. Whaley

The plaintiff sued to enforce a vendor’s lien for the unpaid purchase money for a certain tract of land sold by him to the defendants, in November, 1866, and for which he had executed to them a bond for title. The defendants, who are husband and wife, set up in their answers that they were induced to purchase said land through false and fraudulent representations of the plaintiff' as to the value thereof and by means of undue influence exer - cised by the plaintiff over them, the defendants, who were at the time of said purchase free persons of color, the de - fendant, Presley Whaley, having…