Ramsey v. . Wallace

The complaint alleges that the plaintiff, desiring to purchase a lot in the town of Statesville, on which to erect a factory, with the necessary buildings, in which to carry on the business of manufacturing tobacco, and so informing the defendant, entered into a negotiation for the purchase of that hereinafter mentioned, for which the sum of $500 was demanded. To induce the purchase, the defendants falsely and fraudulently represented that the boundary of the lot began at a (76) stake, the middle of the old gate, and so ran as to include a strip of level land, of the width of eight or ten…