Ratcliff v. Bridger

The defendant being sued on his promissory note for $2000, pleads that he was induced to'sign it by the fraudulent and false representations of the plaintiff, who. pretended to be the owner of valuable improvements upon public land upon Long Lake, in the parish of Caldwell, which he sold defendant. He says these improvements were not worth $200. He says there was error on his part, fraud on the part of plaintiff and no consideration for the note.

*58We find in the record a sale in writing from plaintiff to defendant of all his claims and improvements on Long Lake upon the public domain, it being…