Richards v. Calley

The appellee, Calley, filed this suit against appellant, Richards, to enforce specific performance of a contract for the exchange of real estate, and to recover the rental value of the premises which appellant had contracted to convey to appellee, and further to recover certain payments which appellee' alleged he had been forced to make on the land he had contracted to convey to appellant. He alleged that on April 23, 1926, that being the date of the contract, he was the owner in fee simple of 655.4 acres of land described in the petition, and which was incumbered with certain liens as…