Hansen v. Allen
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for St. Croix county: E. W. Helms, Circuit Judge. This action was commenced March V, 1900, to rescind a land contract entered into by and between the plaintiff and the defendant Allen, August 22, 1899, wherein and whereby Allen agreed to sell and convey to the plaintiff the eighty acres of land described, for the agreed price of $640, of which sum $100 was paid down and the other $540 was payable in five instalments as therein…
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for St. Croix county: E. W. Helms, Circuit Judge. This action was commenced March V, 1900, to rescind a land contract entered into by and between the plaintiff and the defendant Allen, August 22, 1899, wherein and whereby Allen agreed to sell and convey to the plaintiff the eighty acres of land described, for the agreed price of $640, of which sum $100 was paid down and the other $540 was payable in five instalments as therein mentioned — the first of which was for $100, due February 1, 1900 — on the ground that the plaintiff was induced to enter…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, C. J.
It is claimed that tbe complaint does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, and that at the close of tbe testimony the court should have granted a nonsuit or dismissed tbe action. Tbe facts found by tbe court are to tbe effect stated. According to such findings, tbe plaintiff was induced by tbe false representations of tbe appellant and bis agent to make tbe contract mentioned, believing that it described other lands, of very much different condition and quality, wbicb bad been shown to him by tbe plaintiff’s authorized agent.
1. Tbe contention is that there was no…
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