Pringle v. Storrow

LOWELL, District Judge.

This is an action to recover for the broach of a duty owed to the plaintiff in regard to the purchase of property for investment. The defendants filed a general denial; they also pleaded a release under seal. The question raised by this motion is one of much importance in the trial of eases by jury. The answer to it depends on the examination of many authorities — their name is legion — in the federal courts. The question is whether, in a trial by a jury, a sealed instrument can be shown to have been procured by fraud. To one accustomed to the practice in the state…