Plimpton v. Friedberg

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Case, J.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment entered on a directed verdict for the defendant, Louis Eriedberg, in the Atlantic Circuit in an action brought by the plaintiff for the alleged fraud of several defendants — -judgment of nonsuit having gone in favor of all except Louis Eriedberg — in selling to the plaintiff, on March 12th, 1930, for the total sum of $26,200 oil paintings represented by the defendant to be by the artists Romney, Gainsborough and Reynolds, respectively, all well known English artists of the eighteenth century, whose works bring…