Hale v. Lipham

This is an action to recover from the defendant the sum of $500, the purchase-price of certain land of which the defendant is in possession, but to which the plaintiff claims title on the ground that a deed which he had executed to a third party was obtained by fraud. The petition in effect alleges that the defendant came into possession of this land under a deed, the grantor of which had no title, and that the defendant had actual notice at the time he took said deed that the plaintiff had a superior title thereto; that the plaintiff promised the defendant that if the defendant would pay him…