Maddox v. Worsham

NORTHCUTT, Justice.

This is an action for damages based on fraud and deceit in a real estate transaction. J. L. Worsham, J. R. Walsh, Jr. and V. L. Watkins, as plaintiffs, brought this suit against W. A. Maddox, as defendant, for damages which the plaintiffs contend resulted from fraud and deceit practiced on the plaintiffs by defendant when plaintiffs leased a certain ranch in New Mexico from the defendant and a breach by the defendant of the lease provisions in failing to deliver the plaintiffs full and exclusive possession of the land which defendant had contracted to deliver to the…