Weil v. Schwartz
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court, Hon. F. M. Black, Judge. Statement of case by the court. This is an action to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiffs by reason of the false and fraudulent representations and assurances of defendant respecting the credit of one J. B. Isaacson.
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court, Hon. F. M. Black, Judge. Statement of case by the court. This is an action to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiffs by reason of the false and fraudulent representations and assurances of defendant respecting the credit of one J. B. Isaacson. The petition alleges substantially, that plaintiffs, a partnership firm doing business as merchants at the city of St. Joseph, Missouri, were applied to on the twenty-,seventh day of February 1882, at St. Joseph by said Isaacson, a merchant doing business at Kansas City, Missouri, to purchase a…
1Opinion of the CourtPhilips, P. J.
— I. The errors assigned for reversal of this judgment arise on the action of the trial court in giving and refusing instructions. The first and fourth instructions given for plaintiffs are objected to, inter alia, because of the employment of the words : “ was not worthy of a credit,” “ or knew that he was unworthy of a credit.”
*380It must be kept in mind that this action is based solely on the written correspondence between the parties, and that defendant’s liability must spring from the assurance contained in his telegram. Conceding that the telegram should be read and interpreted in…
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