Dingman v. Pahl.
Dingman v. Pahl.
Opinion of the Court
This is a suit on a promissory note for $320, instituted by appellant against appellee, who admitted execution of the note, and filed a cross-action for $1,000 damages alleged to have accrued by reason of fraudulent representations made in connection with the sale of land, for which he had executed five promissory notes in the sum of $320 each. Appellee alleged that four of the notes were secured by a vendor’s lien on the land, and had passed into the hands of innocent purchasers ; that the fifth, which formed the basis of the suit, was not secured by lien, and remained in the hands of appellant; that appellant had falsely represented that the land sold to appellee, who lived in Gillespie county about 70 miles from San Antonio, consisted of eigljt lots of 50 feet front each in said city, and that curbing and sidewalks would' be placed in front of said lots by January 1, 1919; that the lots had only 25 feet frontage and the curbs and sidewalks were not built. The cause was submitted to a jury on special issues, and upon the responses thereto judgment was rendered in favor of appellee on his cross-action for $900 damages, less the sum of $320, evidenced by the note, leaving a balance in favor of appel-lee in the sum of $580.
There was evidence tending to support the *447 position of appellee that a countryman residing 70 miles from the city of San Antonio was induced, by the fraudulent representations of appellant as to the size of certain lots and a promise to supply curbing and sidewalks in front of them, to transfer certain bank stock and execute four vendor lien notes, for which he was bound, and the note sued on by appellant, and the jury was justified in finding that appellee was damaged in the sum of $580.
The judgment is affirmed.
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