Nelson v. Colton
California Court of Appeal
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. C. A. S. Frost, Francis V. Keesling, S. Luke Howe, and Downey, Pullen & Downey, for Appellants.
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
This is an appeal by the plaintiffs from a judgment rendered and entered against them and in favor of the defendants.
The controversy leading to the action arose over a sale of a tract of land in Sacramento County by the defendants to the plaintiff, Carl A. Nelson. The claim of the plaintiffs is that, in the negotiations resulting in the sale, the defendant, B. F. Colton, falsely represented to the plaintiffs that the land in question embraced at least 263 acres, a survey of the land after the sale having disclosed that the tract sold contains 240.52 acres only.
The purchase price of the…
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