Buford v. Caldwell

This was an action on the casebrought by Buford v. Caldwell in the Circuit Court, to recover damages for certain misrepresentations made by the defendant to the plaintiff, in the sale of a tract of land. The defendant demurred to the plaintiff’s declaration, and had judgment; to reverse which Buford has come with his writ of error into this Court.

The declaration charges “ that in a conversation made and had concerning the sale of the tract of land, the defendant showed to the plaintiff a certain dwelling house, and other buildings, and certain improved lands, amounting to about eighty acres,…