Wooddy v. Benton Water Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Benton county, Zent, J., entered June 6, 1908, upon granting a non-suit, after a trial before the court and a jury, in an action by a vendee to recover damages for fraud.
1Opinion of the CourtRudkin, C. J.
On the 3d day of November, 1906, the plaintiffs and the defendant The Benton Water Company entered into a written contract wherein the water company-agreed to exchange sixty acres of land, with a perpetual water right for irrigation purposes, situate in Benton county, for one hundred and fourteen acres of farming lands situate in Whitman county. The lands of the plaintiffs were particularly described in the contract by references to the government surveys, but the only description given of the water company’s lands was the following: “All that part of the
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