Moreland v. Austin

The parties are here in the inverse order of their appearance in the trial court. We shall refer to plaintiffs in error as defendants and to defendants in error as plaintiffs.

The first count of plaintiffs’ amended complaint alleged that pursuant to a written contract dated September 25, 1951, defendants sold to plaintiffs sixteen milk cows and certain land in La Plata County, Colorado, and that defendants “falsely and fraudulently and with intent to defraud the plaintiffs orally represented to the plaintiffs that said milk cows were not infected with brucellosis and that defendants had never…