Hickman v. Tait

delivered the following statement of the case, and opinion of the Court: —

The object of this bill is to obtain a reconveyance of forty-eight acres of land, conveyed; as the complainant alleges, to the defendant by a mistake.

The bill states that James White had a grant for 3,840 acres of land; that the complainant owned a small tract of forty-eight acres; and that White agreed to exchange nineteen acres, part of the 3,840 acre tract, for the forty-eight acres. That after this agreement, White sold the balance of the 3,840 acres, together with the forty-eight acres, to the defendant; and that…