Hunt v. Walker

CARNEY, Presiding Judge.

The defendant below, James Levoy Walker, has appealed from a decree of $2,150 adjudged against him as damages resulting from alleged fraudulent misrepresentations by Walker to the complainants, Hunt and wife, in the sale of a frame dwelling to them. The Chancellor tried the case without a jury.

Walker had listed the frame dwelling for sale through a real estate agent, Mrs. O’Shields. Complainants Hunt and wife responded to the advertisement in the local Chattanooga newspapers. Complainant Hunt is a disabled veteran whose only income is approximately $300 a month…