Brackenridge v. Dawson

This was a bill in chancery filed by Dawson, the purchaser, to obtain a rescission of a contract for the purchase of real estate.

Previous to 1836, one Alexander Ewing was the owner of a tract of land adjoining the town of Fort-Wayne, of which he died seized, leaving several heirs, who, in that year, proceeded to have partition made of the tract by *384a suit in chancery in the Allen Circuit Court, in which gome of the heirs 'were complainants, and others, of whom some were infants, were defendants. The commissioners appointed to make partition reported that the tract was no£ susceptible of…