Tallman v. Green

The bill in this cause states, that an agreement was entered into by the plaintiff to purchase of the defendant a house and lot in the city of Hew York, and that, at the time of making such agreement, the defendant Msely and fraudulently represented to the plaintiff, that the premises were free and unincumbered; that the title had been procured through the court of chancery by the father of the defendant, and that all quit rents therein reserved had been extinguished and discharged. That the plaintiff was induced to purchase, trusting to such representations, and that they were made for the…