Taylor v. Lyon

delivered the Opinion of the Court..

Taylor having sold and conveyed to Lyon, five hundred acres of land, represented to be included in Reiny’s survey, in fhe county of Laurel, and having afterwards obtained a judgment for about seven hundred and fifty dollars — all that remained unpaid of the consideration; Lyon enjoined the. judgment, and prayed for a rescission of the contract, — alleging that Taj lor lived in the state of Tennessee; that he made false and fraudulent representations respecting his title; that the only pretence of title which he ever had, he derived by intermediate…