Scarborough v. Ward

The appellant, Mrs. Willie Scarborough, instituted this suit against the appellees, Gus and E. J. Ward, alleging in substance that the plaintiff was the owner of several tracts of land described in the petition and aggregating several hundred acres upon which a lien existed; that the plaintiff had secured a purchaser for the land at the price of $6 per acre with a reservation of the mineral thereon; that the defendants wrongfully and fraudulently induced the proposed purchaser to believe that the land was rough and undesirable, in consequence of which she was unable to sell the land for hut…