Downing v. Wimble

These parties exchanged farms. Each let the other have certain personal property then on the farms, and this suit is brought to recover damages for fraud in that deal. The action was brought against the defendant and his wife, but the court ordered a verdict for her, and the case went to the jury against Wimble, alone. As the basis of their claim, the plaintiffs relied upon fraudulent representations made by the defendant regarding four things: The hay, the beans, the water, and the cows.

The plaintiffs insist that the defendant cannot be heard in this Court because his exceptions were not…