Lundblade v. Boyes

THE COURT.

An action to recover damages for deceit in which judgment was entered for the plaintiff.

Defendants, who are husband and wife, own a ranch consisting of 320 acres of timber and farm land situated in Humboldt County. The plaintiff alleged that, induced by the oral promises of the defendants to convey to her for its reasonable value a lot approximately one-fourth of an acre in area which formed a part of the above ranch, she built a dwelling-house upon the lot; that the defendants did not intend to perform their promises when the same were made, and have since failed and refused to…