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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