Cunningham v. Ault
Cunningham v. Ault
Opinion of the Court
T. J. Ault, appellee, sued J. F. Cunningham and J. W. Bettes, appellants, for $826.73, alleged to be due him for a shortage of 143.78 acres in four sections of land, sold by appellants to him at $5.75 per acre. Appellee alleged that appellants sold him said four sections of land at an agreed price of $5.75 per acre and represented to him that said sections were full sections and contained 640 acres each, and that the aggregate sum agreed to be paid for said four sections of land was arrived at by a calculation on that basis, or a total of 2,560 acres; that as a matter of fact said sections contained only 2,416.22 acres, or 143.78 acres less than the amount he paid for at said agreed price; and that he had therefore, by mutual mistake as to the amount of land contained in the four sections, paid appellants $826.73 more than he should have paid them.
Appellants answered by general denial, denial of knowledge of appellant of any shortage, if any, and that the conveyance from appellants to appellee was for a lump sum of money, and that the trade, in effecting the sale, was a lump trade.
The case was submitted to a jury on special issues. The jury found: (1) The four sections of land in controversy were sold by appellants to appellee by the acre; (2) appellants represented each section to be a full section of 640 acres i (3) said land was sold at the price of $5.75 per acre; (4 and 5) there is a shortage in the acreage of 143.78 acres; (6) appellee, Ault, did not know of said shortage; (7) appellants, nor either of them, knew of the shortage; (8) Ault did not accept the land regardless of the shortage.
Judgment was rendered on the jury’s findings in favor of appellee for the sum of $826.73.
Finding no reversible error, the judgment is affirmed.
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