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Show cnderstandlng that Mr. Lesscnger was to havo thro? months In which to Inspect the land and see whether she wanted to rescind the purchase or not. If she did not avail herself of this privilege, Peale averts. It was not tho fault of the defendants especially not of himself, and he asks that the case bo dismissed sa to himself. FURTHER LIGHT ON NEVADA LAND DEAL Salt Lake, Oct. 25. R II. Peale, In reply to Mrs. Carrie I?ssenger's milt against him nnd J. E. Noble to recover $1,180 damages, alleged to be due for the sale of eighty ncies of land near Las Vegas, Nov., under misrepresentation, mis-representation, denies any connection connec-tion with the transaction in an answer an-swer filed lu the district court Monday. Mon-day. Mrs. Lesscnger said that Peak- and Noble represented to her that the land was within five miles of l,as Ve- gas, when it was fifteen miles from that place, mid that it was tillable and worth 15 an acre, when it was desert waste and not worth $1 a.n acre. Peale says that the only connection he had with the land was that he purchased pur-chased It from the state of Nevada and he sold it to Noble. He had nothing to do with the purchase of tho ground by Mrs. Leosenger. he says, and knew' nothing of the purchase until un-til some time afterward. Then Mrs. lossenger came to him, he says, and told him that tho land -was wild sagebrush sage-brush ground, with no water available avail-able except from artesian wells, and that it would raise uothing except through Irrigation. He told the woman, wo-man, he says, that the land was tillable till-able and crops may be raised upon It by irrigation. Peale further says that it Is hi |