Legal Opinion
Home Loan & Investment Ass'n v. Paterra
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided July 2, 1969No. 522-AppealPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJoslin, J.
This civil action was brought in the superior court by the payee against an accommodation maker to recover the unpaid balances due on two negotiable promissory notes. A trial justice sitting without a jury determined that the plaintiff had failed to advise the defendant about certain relevant and material facts concerning the loan transactions, treated the concealment of those facts as equivalent to fraud, and found for the defendant for whom judgment entered. The plaintiff appeals.
The facts are not in dispute and can be briefly stated. In November 1964, Ernest Petteruti applied to plaintiff…
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- Haddad v. ClarkSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1945
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