Salisbury v. Miller

Campbell J.

This was a bill filed to restrain defendant Miller from asserting title to certain lands .occupied by complainant, *161which he claimed also to own. The bill sets up that complainant purchased the property by contract from Martin Doty, and obtained a conveyance from Chauncey Joslin, who had become owner thereof subject to complainant’s rights, and to whom complainant made the payments not made to Doty. That, by a mistake of the conveyancer, the land was mis-described in both the contract and the deed. That before receiving the deed complainant began to improve the property, and during…