Crouch v. Butler

The plaintiffs, husband and wife, aver, in substance, that they purchased of the defendant a tract of land in Lane County, Oregon, which they describe by legal subdivisions in part and by metes and bounds as to the remainder. They aver that the defendant, in an attempt to deceive them, falsely represented that there were 150 acres of bottom lands on the place, when, in fact, as shown by a subsequent, survey, there were only 57.20 acres of that kind of land. The total area of the whole tract, about which there is no dispute, is set down at 385.9 acres. They say that, relying upon those…