Clark v. Robinson
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Bill in equity, beard on demurrer. The bill alleged, substantially, that the respondent, of Boston, Mass., in 1864, at Portland, contriving and intending to defraud the complainant, declared to him, that the “ McKay Sole Sewing Machine ” was patented and owned by an organized company (of which the respondent was a stockholder), in Boston; that the company was then successfully operating the machine in the United States for the manufacture of boots and shoes ; that the stock…
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Bill in equity, beard on demurrer. The bill alleged, substantially, that the respondent, of Boston, Mass., in 1864, at Portland, contriving and intending to defraud the complainant, declared to him, that the “ McKay Sole Sewing Machine ” was patented and owned by an organized company (of which the respondent was a stockholder), in Boston; that the company was then successfully operating the machine in the United States for the manufacture of boots and shoes ; that the stock had rapidly advanced in value, and the dividends large; that a company had obtained letters-patent on the machines in…
1Opinion of the CourtBarrows, J.
The bill alleges substantially that the defendant, in the summer of 1864, with intent to defraud the complainant willfully and knowingly, made to him a series of false and fraudulent representations as to matters of fact relating to the “ McKay Sole Sewing Machine,” and the “ Foreign Sole Sewing Machine Company,” and by means of these false and fraudulent statements, which are particularly set forth in the bill, induced the complainant to purchase of him a large number of worthless shares in a pretended company, which the bill charges never had a legal existence, nor any such capital, nor.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Rumph v. AbercrombieSupreme Court of Alabama · 1847