Woodward & Hardie, Inc. v. McMillan

Appellees sued appellant for damages resulting from a breach of its contract to build a house for them, the damages prayed for being the difference between the contract price, $2,910, and $4,000, the price for which appel-lees alleged that the house could be built. Appellant filed a general denial and the special defenses that it was induced to enter into the alleged contract by the fraudulent representations of appellee Will McMillan as to his financial worth, and that the house could be built for the price stipulated in the contract, and therefore appellees sustained no damages. Upon the…