Hunter v. Camp

HALE, Justice.

Appellant sued appellees to rescind a sales contract, to recover $950 he had paid under the same, and to recover damages, $125 actual and $250 exemplary. The contract related to a vacant lot and a house to be constructed upon the lot. The asserted cause of action was based in part upon allegations of fraud.

The case was tried before a jury. In answer to special issues the jury found, among other things, that appellees represented to appellant that “they were selling him a lot with a house to be built upon it, and not just a vacant lot”; that such representation so made was false;…