109 Mich. 249 | Mich. | 1896
The declaration filed in this cause alleges that the defendant was owner of blocks 66 and 67 of the village of St. Louis, and, as an inducement to the plaintiff to purchase the same, produced and exhibited to the plaintiff a regularly executed plat of the W. fractional ■J- of the N. W. fractional J of section 30, dated October 30, 1873, upon which land said blocks were situate, and represented that said blocks were bounded on the
Inasmuch as the court instructed the jury that there could be no recovery upon the covenant, the testimony relating to it became unimportant, and was practically withdrawn from the jury. Hence the assignments of error relating to that subject need not be considered.
The question given most prominence by counsel for the appellant is that the court should not have permitted a recovery for misrepresentation and deceit, it being claimed that the declaration counted upon a covenant, and upon that only; but, in our opinion, the declaration states a cause of action upon the theory adopted by the trial court, whether it does upon a covenant or not, which we need not discuss. It states the representation as to the width of the street, made as an inducement to the plaintiff to purchase; that he believed and relied upon it, and purchased the land; that the representation was false; and that Re suffered damage by reason thereof. The declaration contains the essentials to support the action. The parties were before the court on a former occasion, and plaintiff was defeated because his declaration did not
The court instructed the jury, in substance, that the plaintiff’s right of way over the land represented as Prospect street did not depend upon the acceptance by the public. This was held in Merrill v. Newton, 99 Mich. 225.
We deem it unnecessary to discuss severally the various assignments of .error. The case appears to have been fairly submitted to the jury, and. should be affirmed. It is so ordered.