Hackney v. Dillan

Opinion by

Judge Cofer :

This record furnished most convincing evidence of the necessity for a more rigid enforcement of those rules of pleading and practice which experience had indicated as essential to a correct and expeditious administration of public justice.

About the year 1855, Daniel Roberts sold to the appellants land which was described in the bond for title then executed as “My farm on Roundstone in Rockcastle county, containing 500 acres, be the same more or less.” In the year 1858, Roberts sued the appellants and recovered a judgment at law for the last instalment of purchase money.…