Hoerling v. Lowry

Citations

• 58 Wash. 426
• 108 P. 1090
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 950

Syllabus

<p>Cancellation oe Instruments—Deeds—Validity—Fraud—Evidence—Sueeiciency. There is sufficient evidence of fraud entitling the grantor to a cancellation of his deed, where it appears that he was induced to make a trade of his property for 32 lots represented to be in a city' center and worth one hundred dollars a lot, when they were seven miles from the business center and not worth over a dollar a lot, that the deed was not to be delivered until he had received $2,000 on a sale of twenty of the lots to a pretended purchaser, who paid $50 without any intention of completing the purchase, and that delivery of the deed was wrongfully secured by the agent, who-acted for both parties in the trade and was guilty of the frauds practiced.</p>