People v. Mears

Defendant was engaged in the real estate business in the city of Flint, but not as a licensed broker, and brought about a deal whereby Joseph Bronson and Mary Bronson, husband and wife, owners of a farm, traded it for property in the city of Flint. It is claimed that defendant, with intent to defraud and cheat the Bronsons, falsely pretended to them that there was an $800 mortgage upon the city property for them to assume and pay. There was no such mortgage, and it is further claimed that, by the false pretense mentioned and the further pretense that it was necessary to retire the fictitious…