Hartsman v. Mueller

The plaintiff and defendants entered into a contract in writing for the sale and purchase of a parcel of real estate in the city of Milwaukee. After the plaintiff had entered into the contract for the purchase of the lot in question, which was represented as “size of lot on the above described real estate is approximately sixty (60) by one hundred forty-three (143) feet,” and had paid $1,000 on the contract, he ascertained from the abstract furnished by the defendants that the lot was in fact nine feet short of the represented depth, that is, the lot was sixty by one hundred thirty-four feet,…