Page v. Wells

The special count on which a recovery was had in this cause was as follows: The plaintiff complains “for that whereas, heretofore, to-wit, on or about the 1st day of May, A. D. 1872, the said defendant being then engaged in the business of selling the descriptions of wild land, which were subject to private entry and .sale by the *417United States, and also by the State of Michigan, upon the recommendations and representations of the said defendant as to the quantity and value of the lands which such descriptions represented, did on the day and date aforesaid, and at the city of Ionia in the said…