Patten v. Stewart

The appellant, on the 13th day of February, 1864, filed a complaint in the Vigo Circuit Court, against Stewart, the appellee, alleging, inter alia, that on the 20th day of July, 1855, said Steioart sqld and conveyed-to him one thousand acres of land, situated, in Vigo county; for the sum of $16,000, and also a large amount of stock and personal property, then on said land, for 'the -further sum of $3,000, making in the aggregate the:-sum of $19,000, of which the plaintiff, at the time of the sale, and soon thereafter, paid to the defendant the sum of $7,000, leaving unpaid the sum of $12,000,…