Davitt v. Long-Bell Farm Land Corporation

This is an action to rescind, with damages, on the alleged ground of fraudulent misrepresentations, certain contracts by which defendants agreed to sell, and plaintiffs agreed to buy, for farming purposes, certain cut-over pine lands in the parishes of Beauregard and Vernon in this state.

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Plaintiffs allege: (A) In substance and effect, that by verbal, written and pictorial representations, falsely and fraudulently made by defendants, as to climate, soil, fertility, crops, and surrounding conditions, they were induced to visit the locality and investigate the lands which defendants were…