Talbot v. Bowen

Judge Owsley

delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit was brought in chancery by Bowen, to obtain a title to a moiety of a lot of ground in the town of Henderson, the equity whereof is asserted by him through a certain William Featherston, who, it is alledged,Ipurchased it from the son and agent of Talbot. 1

The purchase of Featherston is admitted by the answer of Talbot, but the authority of his son to sell the land, is denied; and if authorised, it is contended, that; owing to his son’s infancy, and the inadequacy of the consideration *437for which the sale was made, a specific execution of…