Smith v. Scribner
Supreme Court of Vermont
Bill In Ciianckuy. Heard on the pleadings and a special master’s report, December Term, 1885, Orange County, Row.ell, Chancellor.
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Bill In Ciianckuy. Heard on the pleadings and a special master’s report, December Term, 1885, Orange County, Row.ell, Chancellor. The decree was ; That the injunction be made perpetual, by which said Scribner was commanded to desist from proceeding at law against the orator to collect the $1,500 note given towards the price of the farm; that said Scribner surrender the said $1,500 note to the clerk of the court, and pay the cost in the suit at law; that he also pay to the clerk the sum of $1,012,74 with interest from April 1, 1882, in sixty days after tbe filing of the orator’s deed of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Veazey, J.
The allegations in the bill come to this in substance and effect: That the defendant, Scribner, on March 11, 1882, pretending to be seized and possessed of a farm, bargained and conveyed it to the orator by deed, containing, the usual covenants of a warranty deed, for the consideration of |2,500, and received $1,000 of the same and a note for the balance; that within a few days thereafter the orator found that at the time of the conveyance Scribner had leased the farm to one Harvey until the following January, and had agreed to convey the…
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