Creel v. Nettleton

This action was instituted for the recovery of the balance due on the purchase price of antique furniture or heirlooms. The defendant pleaded fraudulent misrepresentation and rescission of the contract as to the amount alleged to be due. The cause was tried to the court, and resulted in findings and judgment in favor of the plaintiff, from which the defendant appealed.

The parties herein are cousins. In the ancestral home in Louisville, Kentucky, was furniture that may now be classified as antiques or heirlooms, being approximately a century old. The appellant, as a boy, of seven to nine…