Plot

Jim Edwards' supposedly crippled leg heals after he begins soaking it in a mineral spring located on a run-down property that he bought for a bargain price.

Likable Jim Edwards moves to the suburban town of Fairview and purchases a run-down property at a bargain price through local Realtor Mary Higgins. Mary develops a fondness for Jim and he evokes sympathy from the townspeople because of his pronounced limp. However, his leg apparently heals after being repeatedly soaked in a mineral spring located on the property. When word of the "miracle" cure gets out, a bidding war for Jim's property begins between a group of local businessmen and two health resort developers from New York. Mary's life is endangered when she accidentally discovers that things are not always as they seem and that Jim and the "developers" are actually ruthless con artists who have set out to defraud the town.—Sam Spear

A young man moves into an old house he has bought from a real estate agent and discoveres a spring in his backyard that appears to have therapeutic properties. A man whose profession is the building of resorts comes to town to buy the land from him so he can build a health resort around the spring, but some of the villagers decide to raise the money and do it themselves. Captain Braddock discovers that the whole affair is a sam centred around the old mud pools around the back of the old house and arrests the young man and his associates.