Silliman v. Gillespie

Dent, Judge:

Charles D. Gillespie and M. W. Gillespie appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Tucker County enforcing a vendor’s lien against them in favor of Edward S. Silliman. Their claim of defense is that the plaintiff: conveyed them six acres of valueless land that they did not purchase instead of four acres of valuable land they did purchase, the difference between the two being about one thousand dollars, and they claim the abatement of the purchase money to this extent. The contract shows that defendants purchased from plaintiffs a tract of twenty and fifteen-sixteenths acres,…