Hunnewell v. Duxbury
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for fraudulent representations alleged to have been made by the defendants as directors of the Electric Advertising Company. Trial in the Superior Court, before Maynard, J., who ruled that the action could not be maintained; and directed a verdict for the defendants. The plaintiff alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
After the decision sustaining the exceptions and demurrer of the defendants, reported in 154 Mass. 286, the plaintiff filed an additional count, declaring that the defendants were directors and officers of a corporation organized under the laws of Maine, engaged in the business of advertising by means of a device consisting of an electric clock and a revolving drum connected therewith, and that the plaintiff had manufactured for the corporation certain clock cases, to be paid for in cash on delivery; that the defendants falsely and fraudulently, for the purpose of deceiving and defrauding the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hunnewell v. DuxburyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
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