Brown v. Wright
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Arkansas Chancery Court. James F. Robinson, Chancellor. J. H. and J. A. Brown brought suit against Wm. Wright and Annie, his wife.
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Appeal from Arkansas Chancery Court. James F. Robinson, Chancellor. J. H. and J. A. Brown brought suit against Wm. Wright and Annie, his wife. The complaint alleges that on April 30, 1887, William Wright owned certain property in Tyler, Texas, known as Wright’s hotel; that he fraudulently represented to plaintiffs that his title was unincumbered, and thereby induced plaintiffs to buy it from him at its full value, $2500, paid in cash ; that he and his wife, Annie, thereafter removed from Texas to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and invested the money received of plaintiffs in a hotel at Pine Bluff, and…
1Opinion of the CourtMansEieed, J.
i. presmnPof Nias, 1. It is suggested by counsel for the appellants that the complaint was treated in the court below as if it were so amended as to claim damages for a breach of the covenants contained in the deed. But we find nothing in the record to warrant us in supposing that the chancellor so regarded the complaint or in holding that he might properly have done so. We must therefore consider it as stating only the facts embraced in its original form as presented by the transcript. As found there, it states no cause of action arising out of any contract with Mrs. Wright, or resultiug…
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