Lewis v. Jerome

delivered tlie opinion of the court:

The plaintiffs, who are appellees here, as children and heirs of Benjamin A. Jerome, deceased, brought this action against the defendant Lewis, who is the appellant, to recover of him three thousand dollars as damages, which they claim to have sustained by reason of his wrongful act in selling and conveying to Kitty'M. Jerome a certain forty-acre -tract of land, to a conveyance of which their father in his lifetime had secured the right by a contract entered into between him and defendant. *461The answer admits the ' execution of the writing which, on its face,…