Smith v. Newton
Supreme Court of Georgia
Evidence. Contracts. Fraud. New trial. Before Judge Underwood. Floyd Superior Court. January Adjourned Term, 1877. Sufficiently reported in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, Chief Justice.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendant on certain described promissory notes, dated on the 9th of April, 1872, and due at different times, the last being payable thirty months after the date thereof, all amounting to the sum of $3,800. The defendant pleaded to the plaintiff’s suit, that on the 9th of April, 1872, he purchased of the plaintiff a one-fourth interest in the Rome gas works, at and for the price of $7,500, paying him therefor $3,700, and giving the notes sued on for the balance; that he purchased said property on the representations…
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