Hilliker v. Jewel Oil & Gas Co.

Defendants Marxer and March appeal from a judgment entered against them and in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $639.56 in an action of assumpsit, containing a count for fraud. The case was tried by the court below without a jury, and judgment entered against appellants on the fraud count, the plaintiff having elected to proceed on that count.

On January 12, 1929, plaintiff, acting upon verbal representations made to him by one C. W. Garwood, claimed by plaintiff to be acting as agent for appellants and others engaged in promoting a proposed corporation to acquire oil and gas property and…