Cheek v. . Watson

The defendant does not controvert the title to the land aequired by the plaintiff under the sale and deed of the assignee in bankruptcy, but asserts an equity attaching to his estate therein by virtue'of a distinct antecedent agreement between them, that the plaintiff would buy the land for the defendant, and reconvey to him upon being, reimbursed the sum bid and accruing interest, in consequence of which the plaintiff having but a single competing bidder, was enabled to buy the land for about one-third of its actual value, and which it would have then brought but for the reluctance of others…