Sheldon v. Harding

This was a suit in equity brought by George Sheldon, in the Warren Circuit Court, against George F. Harding and Chauncey Hardin, to enforce an alleged trust and for the payment of money alleged to have been fraudulently obtained. It appears that Chauncey Hardin had a tax title on the land in dispute, and had sold the same to one Bockwell, who, through Bogguss, sold the same to complainant. Bockwell had agreed to pay $1,600 for the quarter, and he sold to complainant for $1,100. Hardin made to the latter a quitclaim deed for the land. It was afterward found that the land had been erroneously…