Lange v. Mayo

This suit was instituted by- appel-lees against appellants in the chancery court of Pulaski County, to enforce the specific performance of a contract for the exchange of their farm in Lonoke County, Arkansas, for an apartment house belonging to appellant in Capitol View Addition to the city of Little Rock, Arkansas.

Appellants interposed the defense that they were induced to enter into the contract through the false and fraudulent representation of appellees that 500 acres of the land were in a high state of cultivation, and, on account of the alleged misrepresentation, sought by cross-bill to…