Barton v. Cox

Appellant instituted this suit on the 16th day of December, 1913, alleging that, on the 22d day of November preceding, he had purchased cf Mrs. Eddie Cox, acting by her authorized agent, R. E. Cox, a tract of land situated in the corporate limits of the town of Stephenville, represented to contain 100 acres, at the price of $77.50 per acre, but which it was soon thereafter discovered contained only 84.04 acres, and he sought to recover as damages the loss occasioned by the deficiency. The petition contained further allegations to the same end of a mutual mistake of the parties as to the…