Josselyn v. Edwards

The appellee, George B. Edwards, on the 22d day of January, 1872, purchased of "William Clinton Thompson, one of the defendants in the court below, a tract of land adjoining the city of Indianapolis, for the sum of fourteen thousand dollars, and on that day received a conveyance for the same, by warranty deed, from the said Thompson.

The land was described in the deed as “All that part of the east half of the north-west quarter of section twenty-six (26), township sixteen (16) north, range three (8) east, which lies east of the Michigan road and north of the county road which runs…