Thompson v. Walker

June 25, 1929, plaintiffs, who had been stockholders in the A. E. Walker Candy Corporation, brought suit against defendants by declaration containing three counts, one of which charged defendants obtained plaintiffs’ property and money by fraud and deceit; another charged fraud and deceit, plaintiffs’ resulting injury, and waived the tort and counted in assumpsit; to which was added the common counts in assumpsit. The declaration sets forth the claimed fraud, false representations, and deceit with particularity. Defendants pleaded the general issue and gave notice of the statute of…