Southern Oregon Orchards Co. v. Bakke

The evidence of defendant and Ms witnesses tended to show that he was a Swede just arrived in the locality of this tract from Canada and unacquainted with the land or with the people in that vicinity; that he visited the tract and walked over it once in company with plaintiff’s agent, who assured him that the tract was the choicest of all *25land in that country, being “first bench land” especially adapted for fruit and worth $3,000, and that one orchard near there had brought its owner an average annual income of $791 an acre; that the agent assured Bakke that he, Anderson, was a Christian; and…