Ludwig v. Petrie
Citation | 70 N.E. 280,32 Ind.App. 550 |
Decision Date | 10 March 1904 |
Docket Number | 4,697 |
Parties | LUDWIG v. PETRIE ET AL |
Court | Indiana Appellate Court |
From Huntington Circuit Court; J. C. Branyan, Judge.
Action by John Ludwig against Margaret Petrie and others. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals.
Reversed.
U. S Lesh and Eben Lesh, for appellant.
J. S Branyan, Milo Feightner and G. W. Stultz, for appellees.
Action by appellant for damages growing out of a breach of warranty in the deed of conveyance of certain real estate purchased by him of appellee. The complaint was in two paragraphs. The first paragraph of complaint contains averments covering the execution and delivery of the deed, the payment of the purchase price, the warranty covering thirty-five and seventy-hundredths acres of land, the failure of the title to six and seventy-hundredths acres of the land so conveyed and warranted, and the eviction of appellant therefrom by one holding the paramount title. The second paragraph of complaint, in addition to the averments which appear in the first paragraph, contains the following: That at the time of the purchase of the real estate appellee orally represented that a certain rail fence running south from the Maple Grove gravel road, near the buildings on the land conveyed, was the line fence, and formed the western boundary of said land that such representations were false and fraudulent, and were falsely and fraudulently made, and that appellant relied upon and believed them to be true; that thereafter, and after appellant had purchased the real estate so pointed out to him, a survey was had of said land, and said line fence was removed a sufficient distance east to dispossess appellant of six acres of land. The material part of the deed, which was made a part of each paragraph of complaint, is as follows: An answer of general denial filed by appellee made the issue upon which the case was tried. The trial resulted in a judgment against...
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