Pennington v. Tolle
Pennington v. Tolle
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The reformation of a deed was the principal relief sought in this action.
Plaintiff. alleged that on February 14, 1910, he bought a forty-five-acre tract of land from the defendant for the sum of $2100 and in the negotiations had and in the deed executed the defendant reserved to himself the oil and gas in the land and any damages that might be paid resulting from smoke and noxious gases thrown upon the land from a smelter located on an adjoining tract. It is alleged that at the time of the purchase defendant falsely represented that a certain company had been given an oil and gas lease and therefore he must reserve the right to prospect and take oil and gas from the land,
According to the averments in the petition the plaintiff was not in fact defrauded. In order to recover it must appear that the fraudulent representations occasioned him some loss or injury. He received just-what he purchased and*at the price agreed upon. The misrepresentations as to the existence of an outstanding lease did not impair the title to the estate conveyed to him, nor give him any right to an estate explicitly reserved. 'The plaintiff has no more right to complain than if the defendant had owned fifty acres of land which plaintiff offered to purchase and the defendant had falsely represented to him that he had already sold five acres of the tract, but would sell the remaining portion of the land to him for $2100, and the plaintiff, believing that five acres of the tract had been sold, purchased the remaining forty-five acres for an agreed price. He might have preferred to purchase the whole tract, but he received exactly what he did buy,
The judgment of the district court is affirmed.
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- Charles E. Pennington v. John D. Tolle
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- SYLLABUS BY THE COURT. Sale — Land — Reservation of Oil and Gas — False Representations by Grantor — Grantee Not Defrauded — No Recovery. A party conveyed a tract of land to a grantee for an agreed price, reserving to himself the oil and gas in it with the right to go upon it to drill wells and take out such oil and gas as might he found there. In his petition plaintiff alleged that the grantor represented to him that there was an outstanding lease upon the land and the grantor would therefore reserve the oil and gas in the land, whereas no lease in fact existed at that time; and believing and relying on the representation so made plaintiff agreed to the reservations that were made and purchased the remaining interest in the land at the stipulated price. Held, that as plaintiff received what he purchased at the price agreed upon, the representation as to the interest not conveyed did not operate as a fraud upon him or give him a right of action against the grantor.