Stephenson v. Lord

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered May *85819, 1978 in Fulton County, upon a verdict rendered at a Trial Term in favor of plaintiffs. On May 22, 1975, plaintiffs purchased from defendants a tract of land in Fulton County for the purchase price of $100,000, and a controversy subsequently developed between the parties over the amount of acreage included in the tract when a survey thereof conducted after the closing revealed that it contained only 27.41 acres. Ultimately, plaintiffs instituted the present action in fraud against defendants, and in their complaint they basically…