Bishop v. E. A. Strout Realty Agency, Inc.

PARKER, Chief Judge.

This is an' appeal by plaintiffs from a judgment for defendant on a directed verdict in an action to recover damages for deceit. Plaintiffs are husband and wife who purchased a tract of land with water frontage for the purpose of using it as an angler’s camp. The defendant is the real estate agency that is alleged to have sold the property acting through its local representative or “associate”, one Oscar C. Davis, who was not joined in the action. The complaint alleges that plaintiffs were induced to purchase the land through the false and fraudulent representations of…