Morton v. People

Plaintiff in error was convicted of obtaining money under false pretenses, and brings error.

The information on which he was convicted charges that he obtained from one Grimm $400, part of the purchase price of a truck which he sold to Grimm on representations that he and one Durham were operating a sawmill and tie camp, and had enough railroad ties out and ready to haul to last six men hauling with trucks six months, to be delivered at Morrison, Englewood and intermediate points; that the ties were being rapidly skidded down the mountain to a place where they could be loaded; that the said…