Thomson v. Pentecost
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions OE tobt for damages alleged to have been caused by false and fraudulent representations of the defendant, whereby the plaintiff Thomson was induced to purchase certain live stock from the defendant and with the plaintiff Stone to take a lease from the defendant of a dairy farm in ISTorthfield, called the Maples Dairy, and the plaintiff Stone was induced to give up a profitable business in which he was engaged in order to become one of the lessees and to manage…
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Two actions OE tobt for damages alleged to have been caused by false and fraudulent representations of the defendant, whereby the plaintiff Thomson was induced to purchase certain live stock from the defendant and with the plaintiff Stone to take a lease from the defendant of a dairy farm in ISTorthfield, called the Maples Dairy, and the plaintiff Stone was induced to give up a profitable business in which he was engaged in order to become one of the lessees and to manage the dairy. Writs dated March 16, 1907. In the Superior Court the cases first were tried together before King, J. The jury…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
By our former decision the defendant’s liability was determined, but because of error in the instructions a new *226trial was ordered on the measure of damages only, and no other question remained open for the defendant to contest. Pratt v. Boston Heel & Leather Co. 134 Mass. 300, 302. Thomson v. Pentecost, 206 Mass. 505, 513. The cases are again before us upon numerous exceptions which he alleged at the second trial.
It is contended that a verdict for the defendant should have been directed, as, the wrong suffered by the plaintiffs having been joint, they could not sever and bring separate…
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