Stewart v. Presley

The plaintiffs allege that, in March, 1865, they sold to Levi Presley two lots in the city of Shreveport for six thousand dollars, and bought from said Presley a certain tract of land situated in the State of Texas, for six thousand dollars. That the two sales were, in fact, an exchange of the property mentioned. They aver thafr the consideration of the transfer by them of the two-lots in Shreveport was the trjict of 640 acres of land in Texas, transferred to them by Presley, and they aver that the said consideration has totally failed that, at the date of the said sales or exchange, the said…