Evatt v. Hudson
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Scott Chancery Court; /. V. Bourland, Chancellor; In order to sustain a recovery for appellee, it must appear that the statements made by appellant were false, and that he knew them to be false, or else, not knowing, he asserted them to be true with intent to have appellee to act upon them, and that he did so, to 'his injury. 73 Ark. 542; 11 Ark. 58; 38 Ark. 339; 60 Ark. 387. Where the purchaser undertakes to make investigations of his own, and the vendor does…
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Appeal from Scott Chancery Court; /. V. Bourland, Chancellor; In order to sustain a recovery for appellee, it must appear that the statements made by appellant were false, and that he knew them to be false, or else, not knowing, he asserted them to be true with intent to have appellee to act upon them, and that he did so, to 'his injury. 73 Ark. 542; 11 Ark. 58; 38 Ark. 339; 60 Ark. 387. Where the purchaser undertakes to make investigations of his own, and the vendor does nothing to prevent his investigation from being as full as he chooses to make it, the purchaser cannot afterwards allege…
1Opinion of the CourtFrauEnthar, J.
This was an action instituted by O. R. Hudson, the plaintiff below, to annul a contract of sale or exchange of property into which it was alleged that the plaintiff was induced to enter by reason of the fraud of the defendant. It was alleged that the defendant sold to the plaintiff 34 shares of the capital stock of a business corporation for which he paid in money and property the sum of $1,125 > and that defendant induced him to purchase said shares of stock by falsely and fraudulently representing that the corporation was in a good and prosperous financial condition, when, as a matter of…
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