Steed v. Baker

Allen, P.

In this case the appellee Baker, the purchaser of the interest of A. Bauseman in certain lands in Wood county, and which had been conveyed *381to him by a deed with special warranty, filed a bill to enjoin the collection of the purchase money unpaid, upon the ground of a defect of title to a large portion of the land.

The bill alleges, amongst other things, that prior to his purchase, a portion of the land, two hundred acres, was sold by the sheriff of Wood county in February 183-5 for the nonpayment of taxes, at which sale Josiah M. Steed became the purchaser; that he assigned the…