Benson v. Watkins

The plaintiff, Max Benson, filed his petition in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, alleging that he was the owner of a certain tract of land in that city, that his residence was in San Francisco, California, and that the defendant Watkins was a resident of the city of St. Louis and the plaintiff's agent or the manager of his real estate; that he collected rents on the land described; that he was requested by plaintiff to find a purchaser, and, falsely representing to plaintiff that the property could not be sold for more than $4,000, induced plaintiff to sell and convey it for that…