Adams v. Lambard

This action was commenced by Horace Adams, plaintiff's testator, on September 2, 1880, for an accounting, and to compel the defendant to convey to him an undivided one-third interest in the Mount Pleasant mine. When the plaintiff learned, from the answer to his complaint, that the defendant had conveyed the property to innocent purchasers, and that a specific performance of the contract to reconvey was impossible, he filed an amended complaint, alleging the value of the mine, and praying that if it should appear from the evidence that a specific performance could not be enforced, a judgment…