Genet v. Davenport

The plaintiff sought to establish an interest in and title to two parcels of land, the one containing 234 acres, and the other fifty-two acres, and to compel a specific performance of a contract for the sale to the defendant Ketchum of 110 acres, embracing a part of both tracts. The title to both parcels had become vested in the defendant Davenport; that to the larger tract by purchase at a public sale, on the foreclosure of a mortgage to the State, and to the smaller, by deed from Ketchum. The plaintiff had been the owner in fee of the large parcel, and claimed that the sale on foreclosure…