Hokanson v. Oatman

The plaintiff’s declaration avers that defendant, a real estate agent, offered for sale to plaintiff 80 acres of land, “and agreed to sell the same to said plaintiff for the price the owner then asked for the same, and said plaintiff then and there agreed to and with said de*513fendant to pay him, said defendant, the price that the owner then asked for said property; but said plaintiff avers that said defendant, at the time and place aforesaid, falsely and fraudulently pretended and stated and claimed to this plaintiff ‘ that the owner asked $1,200 for said property, and that that was the owner’s…