Broberg v. Mann

The defendant, Charles H. Mann, prosecutes this appeal from a judgment entered by the trial court at a bench trial, in favor of the plaintiff, Lloyd W; Broberg, in the sum of $6,000. The genesis of this litigation was the plaintiff’s purchase of certain land from defendant which plaintiff believed to contain approximately 26 acres, and which, in fact, contained only 18 acres.

The complaint alleged that the defendant represented to the plaintiff that the land in question contained approximately 26 acres, and that the defendant “well knew that the land described in the said deed of conveyance to…