Haskell v. Scott

The. following is the substance of the complaint:

The plaintiff alleges, that on the 1st day of January, 1869, Jacob Steffey and wife conveyed by warranty deed, to Mrs. Martha E. Haskell, a certain eighty-acre tract of land, lying in Hamilton county, Indiana, for the consideration of two thousand one hundréd and fifty dollars, and put her in possession; that on the 17th day of May, 1870, four hundred and twenty-seven dollars of the purchase-money remained unpaid, for which sum the vendors had a lien, by law, on the land, which they were threatening to enforce; that, at the, date last…