Loughry v. Cook
Loughry v. Cook
Opinion of the Court
Appellee instituted this action against appellant to compel him to open a street in front of certain lots in the city of Fort Worth, and, in the alternative, to recover damages in the sum. of $5,825, and made a tender of a deed of conveyance made by appellant to appellee to the land described in the petition. Appellant answered by general and special exceptions, general* denial, and special pleas, and pleaded a cross-action against appellee for $1,250 and for a foreclosure of a vendor’s lien. The general and special exceptions were overruled, and, the cause being heard without a jury, the court rendered judgment that the deed executed by appellant to appellee on *334 October 5, 1922, be canceled and that appel-lee recover of appellant the sum of $1,000, the value of an automobile given in part payment for th(e land, as well as $200 paid as interest on the notes, and the same was declared to be a lien on the land, inferior only to the amount of a lien held by Tilla Garrett, by virtue of a note for $1,500 executed by J. E. Blythe and wife for part of' the purchase money, iiayment of which had been assumed by appellee, which assumption of the debt was canceled by the court, as well as everything in connection with the deed, notes, and contract of sale.
The facts show that in September, 1922, a contract of sale and purchase of , a house and lot in the city of Eprt Worth was entered into between appellant and appellee; the consideration being the sum of $4,250, paid and secured to be paid by the transfer of an automobile valued at $1,750 by appellee to appellant, the execution of a promissory note by appellee for $1,000, to be paid in monthly installments of $25, and the assumption by appellee of a $1,500 note which had been executed by Blythe and wife to Tilla Garrett. In pursuance of the terms of the contract, on October 5, 1922, the deed and other required papers were executed and delivered, and on or about October 21st appellee and his wife went into possession of the house and lot and have since occupied it, making the required monthly payments and interest. This suit was1 filed on April 26, 1923. . The evidence shows that appellee was induced to make the purchase of the property through the fraud and misrepresentation of appellant as to the location of the property with ‘reference to'its contiguity to certain streets. Appellant represented that the property had a front directly'on Bunting avenue and was a corner lot on Haskell and Bunting streets. The house and lot did not front on any street, and the house can be reached only by going over private property. Appellant knew that the property did not border on any street, but so represented it to appellee in order to induce him to purchase the property. The property had been contracted to J. E. Blythe, and .he had executed the $1,500 note, but, after learning that the house and lot did not reach a street, abandoned the contract. This was before appellant sold to appellee,' and the former well knew that the property did not border on any street when he represented to appellee that it bordered on two streets.
The judgment is affirmed.
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