Paddock v. Strobridge
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action on the case for deceit in exchange of horses. Plea, the general issue; trial by jury, June Term, 1856,— Underwood, J., presiding.
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Action on the case for deceit in exchange of horses. Plea, the general issue; trial by jury, June Term, 1856,— Underwood, J., presiding. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to show that in September, 1853, he employed one Dow to go to market for him with horses ; that Dow on his return put up or stopped at the defendant’s tavern, in Peacham, and put his horse in the barn, there being no one present to take him, and went into the house ; that the defendant soon came in and proposed to Dow to exchange horses, and said he had a young horse, too young for his business, (which was staging,) which had…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, Ch. J.
The question in this case is whether, in the \ sale of a horse having an internal and secret malady, of a fatal I character, and no external indications calculated to excite suspicion / of its existence, but known to the seller, and not to the purchaser *476and which the seller knows or believes the purchaser would not buy if he did know of its existence, and still sells at such a price as the article seems to be worth, without disclosing the defect, he is guilty of such fraud and deceit as will be actionable.
There is no doubt that there is…
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