Engel v. Powell

This is a suit in equity wherein plaintiff seeks to recover for the deficiency of 16.13 acres of land, the difference between the actual amount purchased and that conveyed by defendants to the plaintiff. For convenience we will denominate defendants as synonymous as that of defendant.

On the 20th day of January, 1908, and for a period of nine years prior thereto the defendant was the owner of a tract of land situated, partly in Howard and partly in Chariton county, on which date by a written contract he sold to plaintiff and in which the land was described as follows: “All that part of the…