Grant v. McGrath
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for fraud in the sale of a horse, brought, by appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace, to the Court of Common Pleas of Hartford County, and heard by Calhoun, J., on a motion of the defendants for judgment in their favor upon the plaintiff’s replication to their answer. Motion granted and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff. Tlie case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
This is a complaint for a false warranty in -the sale of a horse, returnable before a justice of the peace, and appealed to the Court of Common Pleas.
The third defense is as follows :—“ The defendants say that on Sunday, October 9th, 1887, they sold and delivered to the plaintiff a horse at the agreed price of $80 ; that the horse here mentioned is the same horse referred .to by the plaintiff, and that said contract of purchase and sale, and said alleged warranty and representations upon which the plaintiff relies for recovery, were made, so far as they were made at all, on Sunday, October…
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