Aldrich v. Scribner

Plaintiffs recovered a judgment of $510 in an action on the case for deceit. The case as made •by plaintiffs was in substance as follows: On March 27, 1904, plaintiffs had bought on contract' and owned an equity in a house and lot on Warren avenue, in Detroit. Frank Aldrich, one of the plaintiffs, and acting for plaintiffs, in answer to an advertisement, called, on Barnard & McCloud, agents for defendant, about trading their equity in said property. Mr. Barnard told him Mr. Scribner -wanted to trade one parcel of land in Rochester, Mich., and a piece of land he knew all about, as he had just…