Lallande v. Ball

The plaintiff, a resident of New Orleans, claims from the defendant, a resident of West Feliciana, the amount of a promissory note drawn by the latter, and representing apart of the price of a tract of land.

The answer is a general denial, and the defendant claims in reconvention as damages, the sum of ten thousand dollars, incurred by him in consequence of fradulent misrepresentations of the plaintiff, his real vendor of the said tract of land, who led him to believe that it was partly composed of swamp-lands, and that it was bounded by the river Mississippi, and which was his inducement for…