It appears to be settled and no longer open to question in this state that an aggrieved tenant induced to vacate “controlled housing accommodations” by reason of his landlord’s false representations may, upon appropriate pleadings and adequate proof, recover damages in a common law action for fraud and deceit, whether such false representations may have been made to the Area Rent Director or to the tenant and whether or not the landlord thereby may have procured issuance of a certificate relating to eviction. Bedell v. Daugherty, 362 Mo. 598, 242 S.W.2d 572; Meriwether v. Lumbard, Mo.App., 246 S.W.2d 363, 365 (1); Hunter v. Roberts, Mo.App., 267 S.W.2d 368. In any such suit for fraud and deceit, each of the essential elements of that cause of action must be pleaded and *423proved; and, although it is recognized that fraud is seldom susceptible of proof by direct evidence and usually must be shown by circumstances [Hunter v. Roberts, supra, 267 S.W.2d loe. cit. 372(3) ; Meriwether v. Lumbard, supra, 246 S.W.2d loe. cit. 367], “[f]acts and circumstances which lead only to a suspicion of fraud or facts and circumstances as consistent with honesty and good faith as with fraud are insufficient to make out a case for the jury.” [Powers v. Shore, Mo.Sup., 248 S.W.2d 1, 6(8)]. Likewise, “[i]f the expression of a state of mind or an existing purpose was true when made and was made in good faith then any subsequent change of purpose made in good faith is not material to the transaction.” Powers v. Shore, supra, 248 S.W.2d loc. cit. 6(7). See also Hunter v. Roberts, supra, 267 S.W.2d loc. cit. 372(2).