Holloway v. Forsyth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Five actions of tort for false and fraudulent representations whereby the plaintiffs' were induced to buy or to refrain from selling shares of preferred stock in the North American Rubber Company, as stated and described in the opinion. Writs dated respectively February 11, March 8, April 29, May 18 and June 8, 1915. In each case the defendant demurred.
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Five actions of tort for false and fraudulent representations whereby the plaintiffs' were induced to buy or to refrain from selling shares of preferred stock in the North American Rubber Company, as stated and described in the opinion. Writs dated respectively February 11, March 8, April 29, May 18 and June 8, 1915. In each case the defendant demurred. The demurrers, as well as demurrers of the same defendant in thirty-two other actions each brought against him by a different plaintiff, came on to be heard before McLaughlin, J., who made orders overruling all the demurrers and by agreement…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
These are actions of deceit brought by thirty-seven plaintiffs, who allege that, relying on certain printed and oral representations made or caused to be made by the defendant, they were induced to purchase or to refrain from selling shares of stock in the North American Rubber Company, a corporation organized in 1909, for the purpose of manufacturing a substitute for rubber. The defendant demurred to all the declarations, the demurrers were overruled and five typical declarations, with their respective demurrers, are reported to this court.
It is further alleged in each declaration, that in…
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