Roy v. Haviland

Haviland sued Charles Roy and John A. Butler, for the rescission of a contract for the conveyance of land, on account of fraud in obtaining the contract.

The complaint reads as follows:

“ Almond Haviland complains of John A. Butler and *365Charles Roy, and says that he was, on, &c., at, &c., the owner in fee simple of a certain tract of land, containing one hundred and sixty acres, in the county of Lagrange, Indiana, and particularly described as follows, to-wit: The north-east quarter of section thirty-six, in township thirty-seven, north of range nine east; that he had, for the last five years,…