Ryckman v. Johnson

This is an action to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by reason of false and fraudulent representations made to induce the exchange and purchase of real estate. The case was tried to a jury, which returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, and, after allowing a certain offset, a judgment thereon was entered, from which the defendants have appealed.

Respondent, a widow, lived in Ballard, where she owned two lots upon which she had recently constructed a dwelling house. This property, subject to a mortgage, she was induced to exchange for a forty-acre farm in Yakima county,…