Van Buren v. Fine

Touching the merits of this case I am unable to escape the conviction that the reason and only reason defendant vendee failed to carry out the terms of his contract of purchase was his inability or disinclination to finance the purchase in a falling market.

By way of defense on the part of the vendee it is claimed that one Lipsitz was employed by complainant vendor to effect a sale of the property here in question and made false representations to Lipsitz touching the income of the business, which false representations were repeated by Lipsitz to defendant prior to the execution of the…