Trent v. Calderwood

The defendant is appellant from a judgment, by which the plaintiff has recovered from him the price of several lots of ground in the town of Monroe. He resisted the claim on the ground, that the title to the premises was not in the plaintiff, his vendor, who, before the sale, had transferred it to his wife. The sale, under which the claim is made, is an authentic one, in which the plaintiff and his wife sell the premises to the defendant, and concludes with her renunciation of all her claims thereon for the restitution of her dotal and paraphernal property.

The act shows that the defendant…