Pickard v. Stewart

This suit is brought for the recovery of one half of the price of a tract of land, the property of the wife, sold during her minority by the defendant, her step-father. The claim is grounded on a deed of sale of a tract of land, given to the wife as is alleged therein, in payment of one half of the price received by the defendant on the sale of her land. The defendant pleaded the general issue ; and further, that the deed mentioned in the petition was signed by him in error and obtained in fraud ; and that at the time he received the price of the land alleged to have been sold by him, there…