Freeman v. Soukup

OPINION

By the Court,

Badt, J.:

The trial court awarded the plaintiff a judgment of rescission of a contract to purchase certain ranch property from the defendant for $175,000 and for a return of plaintiff’s $25,000 down payment, upon the ground of defendant’s false and fraudulent misrepresentations of fact, upon which plaintiff relied and which were made for the purpose of inducing plaintiff to enter into the contract. Defendant has appealed from the judgment and from the order denying new trial.

Although his 86-page opening brief lists nine assignments of error, discussed under 14 separate…