Karls v. Drake
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. In the summer of 1914 Mathias Karls was the owner of eighty acres of land in Adams county, Wisconsin. The defendant, Clarence Drake, was the owner of certain real estate in the city of Madison, Wisconsin. One day, while engaged in carpenter work at Black Earth, Wisconsin, he was called on the telephone and asked to come to Madison.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. In the summer of 1914 Mathias Karls was the owner of eighty acres of land in Adams county, Wisconsin. The defendant, Clarence Drake, was the owner of certain real estate in the city of Madison, Wisconsin. One day, while engaged in carpenter work at Black Earth, Wisconsin, he was called on the telephone and asked to come to Madison. He came on an evening train and went to the office of a real-estate agent, where he found Mr. Karls, the plaintiff. A trade of Karls’s eighty acres in Adams county for…
1Opinion of the CourtOwen, J.
The defendant contends that he was entitled to judgment in the sum of $1,100, being the difference between the fair market value of the Adams county land as found by the jury and the value thereof as represented by the plaintiff. The exact question presented is whether the representation made by the plaintiff that the land was well worth $1,500 is to be deemed a representation of a fact or *374merely the expression of an opinion. The trial court treated it as the expression of an opinion, and denied judgment for the difference between the actual value and the value as so represented.
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