Brown v. Whipple

This is an appeal by defendant-appellant Walter Whipple, from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Bureau County entered in favor of plaintiffs-appellees, James Brown and Richard Malmstrom.

Counts I and III of a four count complaint were based on fraud and alleged defendant bargained to buy plaintiffs’ farming operations and in exchange an arrangement was set up whereby defendant agreed to sell plaintiffs his automobile and farm equipment business; that defendant with intent to deceive and defraud plaintiffs, fraudulently made false representations to plaintiffs upon which plaintiffs relied and…