Baron v. Buermann

This bill is to compel an exchange of properties — the defendant's property in Newark for the complainants' in and adjoining Morristown. The defendant refused to go through with the deal because, as he claims, it was falsely represented to him that the complainants' tract, an estate of about forty acres, for the most part lies in the town of Morristown, whereas only a fraction, about eight and one-half acres, is within the town limits. The sharply contested question is whether the representation was made. If made, it was false, material and injurious. The defendant, his broker and his lawyer,…