Babcock v. Jordan

Jordan, the appellee, sued the appellants and others to recover against Melville D. Babcock, one of the defendants, for fraud in the sale of real estate, and to make the amount recovered a specific lien on certain lots in the city of Indianapolis.

The complaint alleges that, on the 28th day of January, 1859, the plaintiff was the owner of lot 59, in the north half of lot 9, in McCarty's subdivision of out-lots numbered 118 and 119, in the city of Indianapolis. That the defendants, Melville D. Babcock and Thomas Springstead, represented to the plaintiff that said Springstead was the owner in…