Gordon v. Butler
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. The facts are stated ,in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
delivered the opinion of the court., .
This was an action for alleged fraud upon Butler, the plainr tiff, below, in obtaining from him a loan of $10,000 upon insufficient security. The facts of the cáse, so far as necessary to present .the questions involved for our consideration, are briefly as follows: —
Near the town of Potsdam, in New York, there are sandstone quarries,: situated on the west bank of Racket River. The land containing them, when the loan was made, was divided into lots, varying in size from seven to thirty-six acres. Previously to 1873 the quarries, although generally…
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