Norris v. Spofford
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for false and fraudulent representations. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Rockwell, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and the defendant alleged exceptions, the material parts of which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSoule, J.
The parties agree that a contract was made between them, by which the plaintiff was to sell his horse and diamonds to the defendant. The controversy is as to the consideration for that sale. The plaintiff introduced evidence tending to prove that he was to receive in payment a horse called Little Med, and that the defendant fraudulently delivered to him a horse of much less value. The defendant, admitting that he delivered the less valuable horse, contends that the bargain was for that horse, and not for Little Med, and introduced evident e tending to prove this. The evidence being…
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