Lindow v. Mudge

Plaintiffs traded property in the city of Detroit with defendants for a farm in Livingston county. They filed a bill to rescind after the property transferred to defendants had been sold to parties who upon this record were good-faith purchasers. After a hearing the case was transferred to the law side, the court finding in the order that defendants were guilty of fraud. The propriety of making this order or of its contents is not questioned. The case was tried to a jury without any change of pleadings and upon the theory that a fraud was perpetrated on plaintiffs, the trial judge thus…