Sievers v. Fuller

While the jury found that the defendant represented that Mrs. Cox was the owner of the farm and that her price therefor was $13,000, upon which representations, the plaintiff relied, it was also found that the plaintiff ought not, in the exercise of ordinary attention to his business, to have relied thereon. The latter finding of the jury is not assailed as being unsupported by the evidence, and could not well be in view of the fact that the plaintiff signed two contracts with the defendant as owner of the premises, and in view of the further fact that the abstract of title revealed a land…