Stevens v. Sweitzer

Citations

• 117 Wash. 420
• 201 P. 764
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 877

Syllabus

<p>Vendor and Purchaser (15, 18) — Fraud—Misrepresentations. Where a party upon a sale or exchange of property undertakes to show his land to a prospective purchaser, he is bound to show the land he owns and its boundaries, if required, under penalty of responding in damages or to an action in rescission; and the vendor cannot evade responsibility on the score of being ignorant of the exact location of his own land.</p> <p>Husband and Wife (42) — Actions—Parties. An action by the husband for rescission of an exchange of property is not demurrable for defect of parties plaintiff because the wife was.not joined, where the complaint alleged ownership of the property by the husband in his own right, such allegation being sufficient in the absence o£ a motion to make more definite and certain.</p>