Bullitt v. Farrar
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Plaintiff brought this action in the district court for Bamsey county, to recover damages for alleged fraudulent representations made by defendant on November 4,1886, when selling (as agent for the owner) lot 11, block 2, in Haldeman’s addition to St. Paul.
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Plaintiff brought this action in the district court for Bamsey county, to recover damages for alleged fraudulent representations made by defendant on November 4,1886, when selling (as agent for the owner) lot 11, block 2, in Haldeman’s addition to St. Paul. The sale was made at defendant’s office in that city, and the representation alleged in the complaint was “that said-lot was not more than five or six, and certainly not over seven feet below the grade of Goodrich avenue, in the city of St. Paul, in front of said lot, and was above the grade of said avenue in the rear of said lot, ” and…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
Action to recover damages for deceit in. the sale of a city lot. As claimed by plaintiff, the deceit consisted in false and *10fraudulent statements and representations made by the defendant— who made the sale as the agent or broker of another person — as to the grade of the lot. The plaintiff obtained a verdict, and his appeal is from an order granting defendant’s motion for a new trial. There is nothing in the record tending to indicate that the court below did not consider each of the grounds urged in defendant’s motion, viz., that the verdict was not justified by the evidence, and that error…
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