Stokes v. Stokes

This is a suit by the plaintiffs against the defendants for damages alleged to have been occasioned them by a fraud perpetrated upon them, in that said defendants overreached them by means of an artifice or trick employed to induce them to sell certain lands at a price far below its value. The defendants answered separately by general denial, special defenses, and some of them presented cross-actions. The trial was before the court without a jury. Judgment was rendered denying plaintiffs recovery and removing cloud (plaintiffs’ claim) from title to the land in response to a cross-action of…