Wilkinson v. Pritchard

The original petition in this case was filed in equity asking for the rescission of a contract for the sale of seven hundred and twenty acres of land in Jasper county by defendant to plaintiff. The petition was answered by certain admissions and denials', with a counterclaim for an unpaid balance of the purchase *309price, and asking the establishment and foreclosure of a vendor’s lien. Afterwards plaintiff filed a substituted petition, in which is pleaded the fraud in the sale of the land, in which no -equitable relief is asked, but a judgment for damages because of the fraud. This is followed…