Dumas v. Ware & Harper
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages from deceit. Before Judge Ellis. Fulton superior court. October 31, 1913. Mrs. Dumas brought an action of deceit against D. E. Evans and the firm of Ware & Harper, to recover the sum of $500 alleged to have been paid by her to one Braswell, the agent of Ware & Harper, as part payment for a lease on a certain rooming-house in the city of Atlanta.
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Action for damages from deceit. Before Judge Ellis. Fulton superior court. October 31, 1913. Mrs. Dumas brought an action of deceit against D. E. Evans and the firm of Ware & Harper, to recover the sum of $500 alleged to have been paid by her to one Braswell, the agent of Ware & Harper, as part payment for a lease on a certain rooming-house in the city of Atlanta. It was alleged, that, prior to the payment of the $500, the plaintiff informed all of the defendants that she was practically a stranger in Atlanta and was not acquainted with the character and reputation of the “Carnegie Hotel,”…
1Per curiam
The plaintiff having failed to establish that the representations made by the agent of the defendants were known by him to be false, or were of such a fraudulent or reckless nature that, although they may not have been known by him to be false, they yet were made with intention to deceive, equivalent to knowledge of their falsity, she failed to establish one of the essential elements of a cause of action founded on alleged false and'fraudulent representations inducing her to enter into a contract with his principals, whereby she had been defrauded; and the court did not err in granting a…
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