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Show TRIAL OK ALLEGED LAND FRAUD SUIT ON Tho trial of tho case of 13. -I. Gills r! against Jonathan I.ovcII and Thomas f llomor wu commenced beforo a Jury In Judge Armstrong's division of tho dls- - trlct court Friday. The action was KH brought to recover dnmnges In the sum of $23,000 for alleged false reprcsentn-Hons reprcsentn-Hons made by the defendants to Gills HfC In the sale of a farm near this city. It Is claimed by Gills thnt Lovell. who Is his brother-in-law. and Homer 1 represented to him that the farm was ivorlli 45500 and that It had plenty of water for Irrigating tho land, and that there was a certain amount In orchard, whereas, he afterwards found, the land 1 f was worth onlv $3000 and thero was not 1 J sufficient water for Irrigating purposes nn(i thero was only half the amount j V' planted In orchard which was claimed. 1 lie agreed to purchnso It for SfiOOO on j time and' paid $1000 cash to bind the H bargain. |