Crist v. Dice (18 Ohio St. 536, 1869)

Scott, J.

The plaintiff in error was also plaintiff in themriginal action, commenced by him in the court of common pleas of Clark county. In his petition he states, in substance, that he was, in March, 1862, the owner of a small farm, containing about thirty-three acres of land, in Clark county, and that the defendant, Dice, desiring to cheat, deceive, and defraud him, about that time represented to him that he, said Dice, owned two hundred acres of land in Scott county, Illinois, within three miles