Shackett v. Bickford
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for deceit in the sale of a horse. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the November term, 1905, of the superior court by. Chamberlin, J., on the defendant’s exceptions to the denial of motions for a nonsuit and a verdict in his favor and to certain instructions set forth in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBingham, J.
The important question in this case arises on the defendant’s exception to the charge of the court to the jury. The action was deceit in the sale of a horse, and the ground upon which the trial proceeded was that the defendant knew his representations were false. The court charged the jury “ that it was enough, upon the question of the defendant’s knowledge, if he knew or if he suspected that the representations were not true ”; in other words, that suspicion by the maker that his representations are false is the legal equivalent of knowledge of their falsity, and fraudulent.
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