Farrar v. Vanpelt

1. Code § 29-202 provides as follows: “If the purchaser loses part of the land from defect of title, he may claim either a rescission of the entire contract, or a reduction of the price according to the relative value of the land so lost.” As to Code § 29-201, which relates to purchase of land by the tract or by the acre, it was held in Coppage v. King, 96 Ga. App. 192 (99 S. E. 2d 541), as follows: “It is true that where land is bought in gross, a statement that the tract contains a given number of acres is a matter of description only, but this rule has no application where a given quantity…