Hargus v. Goodman

Hargus brought suit to set aside a deed of conveyance and obtain a partition of a tract of land. He avers, in substance, that, in 1808, his father purchased of the United States, under the laws then in force, a certain tract of land, and paid thereon 121 dollars, 26 cents; that afterwards he paid 109 dollars, 13 cents, but failing to complete the payments thereon, the land reverted to the United States; that his father died leaving five heirs, of whom John Hargus was the eldest; that aftewards, on the 27th day of November, 1828, said John procured to be issued to himself and the other heirs…