Hinton v. Mack Purchasing Co.

Mack Purchasing Company brought a suit for damages against W. M. Hinton, in the municipal court of Macon. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff; and sanction of the defendant’s petition for certiorari being refused, the defendant excepted. The suit was an action for fraud, in which the plaintiff contended that on March 16, 1929, the defendant falsely and fraudulently represented that at that time he had a half month’s salary due to him by his employer, Western Union Telegraph Company, and thereby induced the plaintiff to accept an assignment of $27.50 worth of such salary, for a cash…