Townsend v. Niles
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for alleged deceit in falsely and fraudulently representing to the plaintiff that the firm in which the defendant was a partner, who were engaged in a provision business, were doing a business of $150,000 annually, whereby the plaintiff was induced to purchase a one third interest in such business.
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Tort for alleged deceit in falsely and fraudulently representing to the plaintiff that the firm in which the defendant was a partner, who were engaged in a provision business, were doing a business of $150,000 annually, whereby the plaintiff was induced to purchase a one third interest in such business. Writ dated April 9,1908; and Contract, by the defendant in the first case against the plaintiff in that case, on two promissory notes respectively for $2,000 and $1,000, the respective indorsers of the notes also being made defendants. Writ dated March 2,1908. The answers in the second case…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
These cross-actions grew out of the same occurrences and were tried together. Exceptions were alleged in each. "It will be convenient however to consider them separately.
In the first named action Townsend seeks to recover damages for a fraudulent representation alleged to have been made to *530him by Niles in the sale of a share in a provision business which had been carried on by Niles and one Onthank in Boston. The fraudulent representation alleged in the declaration and found to have been made was that Niles and Onthank were doing a business of #150,000 annually. The questions now presented…
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- Brown v. LeachMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
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