Giberson v. Jolley

The evidence in this case warranted the jury in concluding that the promissory note on which the appellant’s complaint is founded was obtained by fraud. The appellee was induced to sign the note by a cufmingly devised scheme, preconcerted for the purpose of deceiving him, and made effective by false statements. The appellant is in error in assuming that all that the payee of the note did was to misrepresent the value and qualities of the so-called Bohemian oats which he induced the appellee to buy. Artifices were resorted to, and these were made means of deception.

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