Marlow v. Medlin

HALL, Justice.

This is a common law fraud action for actual and exemplary damages brought by Cynthia Medlin against William Marlow and wife Elli Marlow as partners. The gist of plaintiff’s suit was that her landlords were defendants’ vendees under a contract of sale of the premises she was renting, and that she was induced by defendants’ false representations to pay defendants rent money she was withholding from her landlords as an offset against a debt they owed to her. Defendants answered with a general denial, several special pleas, and a counterclaim for unpaid rent. After a hearing…