Callahan v. Simms

Litz, Judge:

The plaintiff appeals from a decree of the circuit court, dismissing his bill for rescission of a deed from the defendants to him, conveying real estate, and. restoration of the purchase money.

The South Bluefield Land Company, a corporation, having subdivided certain land into lots, streets and alleys, as an addition to the City of Bluefield, and said lots by reference to a plat thereof, on August 18, 1919, conveyed to Mrs. Gertrude Sleadd Waugh a portion of the land including Augusta Street, and on December 5, 1919, secured from the Council of the City of Bluefield an order…