Boyce's Executors v. Grundy
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL from the decree of the circuit court of West Tennessee., A bill in chancery was filed in that court by the appellee, Felix Grundy, against the appellánts, the executors of James Boyce, to enjoin a judgment at law which they had obtained against him for four thousand seven hundred dollars, and to rescind a contract made between James Boyce and himself, on. the 3d of July 1818, by which Boyce sold and agreed to convey to the complainant, Grundy, nine hundred and fifty…
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APPEAL from the decree of the circuit court of West Tennessee., A bill in chancery was filed in that court by the appellee, Felix Grundy, against the appellánts, the executors of James Boyce, to enjoin a judgment at law which they had obtained against him for four thousand seven hundred dollars, and to rescind a contract made between James Boyce and himself, on. the 3d of July 1818, by which Boyce sold and agreed to convey to the complainant, Grundy, nine hundred and fifty acres or arpents of land on the Homochito river, in the state of Mississippi, and for which Grundy agreed to pay him…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Johnson
This is an appeal from the decree of the circuit court of West, Tennessee, rendered in a case in which the appellee was complainant.
The bill was filed to obtain the rescisión of an agreement entered into on the 3d of July 1818, between James Boyce, the appellants’testator and devisor, and the complainant,'for the sale of a tract of land lying on the Homochito river, in the state of Mississippi.
The grounds set forth in the bill are, fraudulent misrepresentations.
1. As to the testator’s title to the land. 2. As to the locality of the land. 3. As to the liability of the land to inundation. 4. As…
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