Patterson v. Browns

MADDOX, Justice.

The trial court, on a motion for summary judgment filed by a third-party defendant, entered a summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs on the ground that $500 paid into court for land survey costs and a corrected deed were all the plaintiffs were entitled to receive. The plaintiffs contended in the trial court, and here, that they were entitled to maintain their fraud and misrepresentation action against the original defendant. We agree.

The original action grew out of a dispute over a boundary line. The tendencies of the evidence are as follows: In 1983, during negotiations…