Troutman v. Stiles

The object of this action by Troutman against Stiles is to recover the sum of $9,600 from the latter as damages which resulted to the plaintiff, as he says, by reason of certain false and fraudulent representations by the defendant as to the character and value of 320 acres of farm lands in Phillips county, Colorado, which Stiles owned and which he exchanged for a stock of merchandise of plaintiff Troutman in New Palisade, Nebraska. The trial court sustained the defendant’s motion for an order on the plaintiff to make his complaint more specific by setting forth, inter alia, whether or not…