Stewart v. Preston
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Kennan, J., entered May 16, 1912, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action upon implied contract.
1Opinion of the CourtMorris, J.
It was sought in this action to recover the sum of $1,000, upon the ground that G. A. Preston, a real estate broker, while acting as an agent for respondents in the purchase of forty acres of land, falsely represented to them that he had purchased the land at $100 per acre, which was the least sum for which the land could be obtained; that, relying upon the truth of these false representations, respondents purchased the land at $100 per acre, and subsequently discovered that Preston had entered into a secret arrangement with the owner of the land whereby the land was actually sold at $75 per…
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