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127 Wis. 605

Post v. Roberts

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided March 20, 1906

Wisconsin Supreme Court · decided 1906-03-20

J. Eruit, Circuit Judge. The complaint alleges and the court found that plaintiffs were induced to buy defendant’s farm by reason of the latter’s misrepresentation that the same contained 147 acres, of which ninety-one acres were under plow and cultivation and sixty acres thereof were clay loam, whereas the farm in fact contained only 127 acres, of which only seventy-eight acres were under cultivation and about forty acres were clay loam, on which representations plaintiffs…

Affirmed · Decided 1906-03-20

Dodge, J.

¶1A careful examination of the evidence fails to disclose any clear preponderance against the material findings of fact. Indeed, the only serious question is as to whether plaintiffs were so informed of the deficiency in the quantity of the land before purchasing that they cannot be deemed to have relied upon defendant’s statement in that'respect. On this, however, there is considerable conflict of evidence, and certain maps referred to therein present upon the trial below are not brought here in the bill of exceptions. Such maps may have served to strongly support the findings and, in their absence, such must be presumed to have been their effect. If they tended to the contrary, appellant should have incorporated them in the bill of exceptions. Independently of this subject, however, the misrepresentations as to the quantity of clay loam and of cultivated lands are both material and are adequately proved.

¶2By the Court. — Judgment affirmed.

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