Adams v. Baker

BRANNON, PRESIDENT:

This is a chancery suit in the circuit court of Tucker County by John J. Adams against Levina Baker to sell a tract of land sold by Adams to Baker to satisfy a balance of purchase money in favor of Adams, resulting in a decree dismissing the bill, from which decree Adams appeals.

Baker filed an answer setting up that Adams sold her the tract of land as containing one hundred acres, and that the sale was by the acre at three dollars an acre, and that there was in fact only the quantity of fifty-four acres, and that payments which she had made had fully paid for all that the…