Gorman v. Soble

In this action for damages, plaintiffs claimed they were induced to enter into a consent judgment by fraud on the part of defendant’s decedent, Harold Soble. Following a lengthy non-jury trial, the trial court found for plaintiffs and defendant now appeals as of right.

As is often true in fraud actions, the legal issues before this Court cannot be considered apart from a detailed statement of the factual setting from which they spring. With due but necessarily passing regard for the virtues of brevity, that statement follows.

In 1967, Harold Soble purchased two adjoining parcels of real…