Ponder v. Altura Farms Co.
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the Denver District Court. — Hon. H. C. Riddle, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
This is an action by the plaintiff in error, to recover in damages for fraud and deceit alleged to have been practiced by the defendant in error, in inducing the former to enter into a contract for the purchase of a tract of land.
The Altura Farms Company was the owner of several hundred acres of land which it had divided and platted into ten-acre tracts. The contract in question was for one of these tracts, and purports to have been executed on the 16th day of August, 1909. In this the *520agreed purchase price was $2000, to he paid as follows: $10 cash in hand; $40 on the first day of September,…
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