Cotzhausen v. Simon
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Manitowoo County. Action for damages accruing from the defendant’s fraud in a sale to plaintiff of a mortgage of land. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtOutost, J.
This is an action at law for damages, founded upon the fraud of the defendant in the sale to the plaintiff of a mortgage on certain lands in the county of Manitowoc.
The plaintiff sets up in his complaint the following representations of the defendant, claimed to have been false and fraudulent, and the inducement of the contract, by which he suffered damage:
First. “ That the mortgaged premises were of great value; that they constituted one of the oldest and best farms in the county; that Mr. Altman, the owner, had frequently refused $12,000 for the same, without the distillery; that farming…
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