Douglas v. Duvall

HENRIOD, Justice.

Appeal from a verdict favorable to defendant in an action allegedly bottomed on false representations which induced plaintiffs to make six loans between 1950 and 1952 to a mining company whose president was the defendant and one of whose directors was one of the plaintiffs. Affirmed with costs to defendant.

The alleged representations concerned blocked-out ore, potential production, profits, costs and the like.

Plaintiffs’ brief recites the facts most favorable to themselves, losers below, which facts were sharply controverted, — an approach this court does not accept.1 The…