Webb v. Johnston

This is a suit in equity for the rescission of an exchange of real estate and in the alternative for damages on the ground of fraud and deceit practised on the plaintiffs by the defendants. The case was referred to a master under an order requiring him to find and report the facts without report of the evidence. The plaintiffs have appealed from an interlocutory decree overruling their exceptions to and confirming the master’s report and from a final decree awarding substantial damages against the defendant Keenan and dismissing the bill as to other defendants.

Since the evidence is not…