Perkins v. Simmons

This suit is the outgrowth of a verbal agreement to buy and sell a piece of real estate situated in Leon County, near the City of Tallahassee, Florida. The appellants (defendants below), Margaret C. Perkins and Emmie Flagg Perkins, owned or controlled the title to the real estate and by their broker represented to appellee (plaintiff below) that the tract contained 235 acres, more or less. The appellee, with the broker, viewed or inspected the tract and thereafter the appellee offered the appellants’ broker the sum of $65,000.00 for 235 acres. The broker, in behalf of his clients, accepted…