Smith v. Tracy

HOLMAN, Judge.

The various controversies that have arisen between plaintiff and defendants, as hereinafter detailed, resulted from a contract whereby defendants agreed to purchase plaintiff’s 732-acre farm located in Lewis County, Missouri. In this ejectment action plaintiff, alleging that defendants had breached the contract in a number of respects, sought possession of said land. Defendants filed an answer and counterclaim consisting of five counts. In the first count defendants sought to recover $100,000 actual and $200,000 punitive damages because of the alleged false representations of…