Lindow v. Mudge

Herman Lindow and wife, plaintiffs, claiming that they had been induced to exchange their property for a farm through the fraud and misrepresentations of Harry E. Mudge and Christine D. Mudge, his wife, defendants, brought suit on the equity side of the court. The trial court ordered a transfer to the law side and the case was tried before a jury, upon the theory of fraud, without any new pleadings being filed. The judge charged the jury that the only fraud claimed consisted of Mudge’s misrepresentation that he would furnish $2,000 with which,to enable plaintiffs to operate the farm.…