Taft v. Bronson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Frank E. Taft, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Broome Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Broome on the 15th day of August, 1917, denying his motion for judgment on the pleadings and sustaining defendant’s demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Cochrane, J.:
The complaint sets forth a cause of action against the defendant for false and fraudulent representations in the sale to the plaintiff by the defendant of 150 shares of the capital stock of a corporation organized and controlled by the defendant. It is alleged that such false and fraudulent representations consisted in statements that the corporation was doing a good business and that it practically had no debts or obligations, which representations were false and known by the defendant to be false and were made by him with intent to deceive and defraud the plaintiff; that…
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