Maidment v. Frazier
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action for deceit in the sale of land. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the December Term, 1915, Orange County, Waterman, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for.the plaintiffs. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the-case.
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
This is an action for alleged fraud and deceit in reference to the acreage of a farm sold by the defendant to the plaintiffs. The first count of the declaration states in substance that the plaintiffs bargained with the defendant to buy of him his home farm consisting of three parcels of land, together with the stock and tools thereon, .and “intending to deceive and well knowing the said farm to contain a much less quantity than one hundred acres of land, to wit, the quantity of sixty-three acres only, by then and there falsely and fraudulently warranting the said farm to contain one hundred…
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