Griswold v. Carlson

This suit was filed by respondent, a resident of Detroit, Michigan, against petitioner, a resident of Tarrant County, Texas, and is a suit in damages for the sum of $5000.00, alleged to have been stolen by the petitioner from respondent, by means of fraud, deceit, false representations, etc. pursuant to a swindling plan of the petitioner. The petition was not verified at the time it was filed. No answer having been filed by the petitioner, the attorney for respondent, as an affiant, added and appended to the original petition already filed new and additional allegations, and an affidavit…