Cole v. Butler

Appellee sued appellant for damages resulting from appellant’s fraud in inducing a trade or exchange of appellee’s 35 shares of Bell Baking Company, Inc., stock, valued at $100 per share, for appellant’s north 100 feet of lots 3 and 4, in block 19, Methvin’s addition to the city of Temple, valued at $6,000, appel-lee executing five notes for $500 each, secured by lien on the real estate for the difference in the value of the properties exchanged; and upon a special issue verdict he recovered judgment for $2,400 actual damages and $2,700 exemplary damages; hence this appeal.

In substance the…