Nichols v. Adams

This is an action in diminution of the price of a tract of land purchased by the plaintiff of defendant, for deficiency of quantity.

The defence is that it was a sale per aversionem.

The defendant had judgment, and the plaintiff has appealed.

The description of the land in the conveyance is as follows: “A tract of land situated in this parish at the place called 1 Village,’ where the said vendor now resides, containing twenty-six arpents front and bounded above by land of Elijah Adams, and below by land of Mareelin, f. m. c., with the special reservation of four superficial acres from the upper…