Walker v. Russell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for alleged false and fraudulent representations whereby the plaintiff was induced to purchase certain shares of the Basin and Bay State Mining Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Montana and owning a copper mine and smelting works at Basin in that State, which shortly after the purchase of the shares by the plaintiff went into the hands of a receiver.
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Tort, for alleged false and fraudulent representations whereby the plaintiff was induced to purchase certain shares of the Basin and Bay State Mining Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Montana and owning a copper mine and smelting works at Basin in that State, which shortly after the purchase of the shares by the plaintiff went into the hands of a receiver. Writ dated April 11, 1901. At the trial in the Superior Court before DeOourcy, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of @10,850 ; and the defendants alleged exceptions, raising the…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
This is an action to recover @11,000 paid by the plaintiff to the Basin and Bay State Mining Company, a Montana corporation, for one hundred new shares in its capital stock issued by said corporation to him. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to show that he was induced to subscribe to and pay *70for these shares of stock by the following representations which were made by the defendants, to wit: That the corporation owned a gold mine free and clear from all incumbrances; that all bills due from the corporation were paid, and that it “ positively owed nothing ”; that there was from $60,000 to…
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