Askew v. Central Trust Co.

1. Value being a mere matter of opinion,’a false statement as to the value of stock in a corporation, ir.r le.by a seller to induce a sale of the stock, is not such a misrepresentation of an existing fact as will amount to a fraud and void the sale. . Coca-Cola Bottling Co. v. Anderson, 13 Ga. App. 772 (80 S. E. 32). In a suit on a promissory note given for the purchase-price of certain stock in a corporation, a defense by the maker that he was induced to execute the note by fraud is not sustained by evidence that at the time of the execution of the note the payee falsely represented to him…