Knipp v. Myers

Woods, Judge:

The plaintiff seeks cancellation of a certain assignment of an interest in a coal lease, as well as the notes given as a consideration, on the grounds of fraud in the procurement thereof, and the failure of consideration therefor. To a proper understanding of the grounds which are relied upon for relief in this cause it becomes necessary to state the principal allegations of the plaintiff’s bill containing those charges, and such parts of the answer of the defendant Myers as are responsive thereto.

Along about September, 1918, the plaintiff, desiring to purchase some coal land,…