Webb v. Thompson

Thompson sued the appellants on a note, demanding judgment for $500. The defendants answered: 1. Want of consideration.' 2. That the consideration of the note was a conveyance by quit-claim deed from Thompson to Webb of a tract of land in the county of Jasper, at the price of $1,000, for a part of which the note was *429given, the balance being paid; that to induce Webb to purchase, Thompson represented that he held the land by a good and sufficient sheriff’s deed; that he had bought it at sheriff’s sale under a decree of foreclosure rendered in the Jasper Common Pleas, in April, 1859, in a cause…