Handy v. Waldron
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Trespass on the Case for deceit. Certified from the Common Pleas Division on demurrer'to the declaration.-
1Opinion of the CourtTillinghast, J.
The first count in the plaintiff’s declaration sets out that on the 24th day of May, 1893, the defendant falsely and scandalously deceived the .plaintiff by selling him two certain bonds of the Atlantic and Pacific Eailway Tunnel Company in consideration of $2000, to said defendant by the plaintiff in hand paid, as and for. bonds of the value of $1000 each, and then and there warranting the same to be of the value of $1000 each, to wit, of par value, when in truth and in fact the said bonds so sold and warranted, at the time of sale and warranty thereof, were not of that value as the…
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