Hodges v. Verner

James A. Thompson, Sr. is complainant in this bill. The administrator, Hodges, and the heirs of Peter Thompson deceased are the respondents. The purpose of the bill is, in brief, to have- the legal title to a certain tract of land divested out of said heirs and invested in the complainant. To this end its averments present the following case : In 1873 complainant purchased the land in question from one Palmer at the price of three thousand dollars, paying five hundred dollars in cash and agreeing to pay the balance in five equal annual installments with interest, and took Palmer’s bond for…