Reed v. Piatt Development Co.

This is a suit by a vendee of real estate to cancel the contract of sale and recover from the vendor payments on the purchase price. From a decree granting the relief prayed, defendant has appealed.

Piatt Development Company, a corporation, sub-divided a tract of land (in Kanawha county) into lots, streets and alleys as Piatt Addition to the town of Belle. June 21, 1929, its agent, W. L. Parkins, by written contract, sold to plaintiff, lot E in block G of said town addition for the sum of $1750.00, of which $150.00 was paid and the balance to be paid in monthly installments of $25.00 each. The…