Old Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. Bibbs

BLAIR, justice.

Appellee, Naomi Bibbs, sued appellants, Old National Life Insurance Company and B. B. Kirkpatrick, for damages resulting from misrepresentations of title inducing her to purchase and pay $500 for a .92-acre tract of land in Schulenburg, Texas, which land she later lost at the suit of the true owners. The misrepresentations alleged were: (1) That a mutual insurance company, predecessor of appellant Company, had good title to the land; (2) that if the title to the land should; fail, appellants, would return the purchase price, which promise they made without intention to perform…