Rucker v. Allendorph

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

The plaintiff appeals from a judgment ren-' dered against him on the pleadings. These consisted of the plaintiff’s petition, the defendants’ answer, and the plaintiff’s *772reply. The material facts established by the pleadings are substantially as follows:

For some years the defendants had been engaged in fraudulent real-estate transactions. These transactions consisted of the execution and delivery of purported warranty deeds pretending to convey the title to the real property therein described, and of delivering with such deeds spurious and…