Quick v. Williams

This is a suit for damages for breach of a covenant of warranty of title in a deed made by defendants to plaintiffs, conveying eighty acres of land in Holt county. There was a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiffs in the sum of $902.37 and defendants have appealed.

Plaintiffs obtained title to the land in question as the result of a contract entered into on January 5, 1920, between the parties. The contract'recites that defendant Omar A. Williams agreed to exchange his eighty acres of land located in Holt county, Missouri, “for the sum of ten thousand dollars to party of the second part…