Leyden v. Hickman
Supreme Court of Georgia
Fraud. Equity. Contracts. Equitable Pleadings. Venue. Jurisdiction. Before Judge Fain. Catoosa Superior Court. February Term, 1885. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Blandeord, Justice.
Hickman brought his action of ejectment to recover a certain tract of land in Catoosa county which he had sold to Leyden, and given his bond for titles, some of the purchase money being unpaid. Leyden pleaded to this action that he was induced to purchase this land by the false and fraudulent representations of Hickman, that the tract of land contained six hundred acres, when, in fact, it only contained a little over three hundred acres; also that a certain portion of the land enclosed under fence near the Catoosa Springs, did not belong to Hickman, and that this in great…
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