Alger v. Keith
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Middle District of Tennessee. This is a hill filed by Russell A. Alger to procure a rescission of the sale of a large.tract of wild mountain land in Franklin county, Tenn.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Middle District of Tennessee. This is a hill filed by Russell A. Alger to procure a rescission of the sale of a large.tract of wild mountain land in Franklin county, Tenn. The defendants are Mrs. Louie H. Keith, executrix of the last will of John F. Anderson, the vendee in the conveyance to Alger; John W. Gonce, who had been the owner of the three-fourths interest in one of the tracts included in the conveyance by Anderson to Alger; and several others, who are sued as heirs and representatives of the heirs of John F. Anderson, as a…
1Opinion of the Court
LURTON, Circuit Judge,
after making the foregoing statement of the case, delivered tlie opinion of the court.
It will not be possible or profitable to go over in detail the complicated fads presented by the transcript of the record before us, and we shall chielly advert to such of the more prominent matters which involve the substantial merits of the ease, stating for the most part only those conclusions of fact which we reach from an attentive examination of the whole of the evidence. The ease resolves itself into these several questions: First, did Gen. Alger make the purchase of the lands in…
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