MacHine Co. v. Owings.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by the Standard Sewing Machine Co. against D. A. Owings, beard by Judge E. B. Jones, át the October Term, 1905, of the Superior Court of Chaven. The plaintiff, holding notes of defendant for the purchase price of certain machines, bad instituted two actions on same against defendant, and said actions having been consolidated, plaintiff obtained judgment on said notes against defendant at May Term, 1905, of Craven Superior Court.
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ActioN by the Standard Sewing Machine Co. against D. A. Owings, beard by Judge E. B. Jones, át the October Term, 1905, of the Superior Court of Chaven. The plaintiff, holding notes of defendant for the purchase price of certain machines, bad instituted two actions on same against defendant, and said actions having been consolidated, plaintiff obtained judgment on said notes against defendant at May Term, 1905, of Craven Superior Court. Defendant, having filed bis petition in bankruptcy, obtained an order from the District Court, staying further proceedings in that cause in enforcement of said…
1Opinion of the Court
Hoke, J.,
after stating the case; No reason occurs to us why a suit by plaintiff on the contract, pursued to judgment, uncollected and apparently uncollectible, should bar an action to recover damages for fraud and deceit on the part of defendant, and by means of which the sale was procured. Both actions are consistent in theory, and both in affirmance of the sale. The remedies, in this jurisdiction at least, while consistent, are not always entirely co-extensive, nor are the damages necessarily the same. The weight of authority is also against the position of defendant.
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