Blankenship v. McDaniel

Blankenship sued McDaniel on a note for $75 in the court of a justice of the peace, and McDaniel set up a counterclaim, which he appears to have used for the purpose only of extinguishing the debt evidenced by the note sued on: McDaniel testified that he contracted to buy from one Hall a tract of land for $3,000, but, before a deed was made, he contracted to sell it to Blankenship for $4,000. That he told Hall what he had done, and directed Hall to make the deed direct to Blankenship, and that, when he bronght Hall and Blankenship together, they ratified what he had done, but later refused to…