Conger v. White

Plaintiff won a verdict for $17,003.92 (including $5,000 as exemplary damages) against Harry White and appellant, James M. Gordon, as damages sustained in three purchases of real property in Tulare County, which purchases were found to have been induced by fraudulent representations of the defendants. Defendant Gordon appeals.

The first purchase was on December 6, 1940, of 40 acres for a price of $5,400 in cash and the transfer by plaintiff of 16 acres in the same vicinity; the second on January 3, 1941, of 20 acres for $2,700, and the last one on February 11, 1941, for a price of $3,000. In…