Rockefeller v. Merritt
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota.
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
This writ of error challenges a judgment of $940,000 against John D. Rockefeller, the plaintiff in error, for fraudulent misrepresentations of the financial standing of two mining corporations, which induced Alfred Merritt, the defendant in error, to make and perform a contract to exchange certain stocks in several corporations for stock in a single corporation. The contract was made on August 28, 1898. The parties to it were Alfred Merritt, 10 other gentlemen named Merritt, some of whom were his brothers, and Charles W. Wetmore, parties of the first part, John D. Rockefeller, party of the…
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