Buck v. Leach
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Case for deceit. The defendant sailed upon shares the brig L. Warren, belonging to the plaintiffs. He made a settlement of the vessel’s accounts at New York, bringing himself indebted to the owners in the sum of $1,431.36. He thereupon wrote the following letter to John A. Buck, agent of the owners, dated January 10, 1875: “New York January 10th, 1875. John A. Buck, Fsq.: We have done nothing yet in way of charter, hav’nt even had an offer.
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On exceptions. Case for deceit. The defendant sailed upon shares the brig L. Warren, belonging to the plaintiffs. He made a settlement of the vessel’s accounts at New York, bringing himself indebted to the owners in the sum of $1,431.36. He thereupon wrote the following letter to John A. Buck, agent of the owners, dated January 10, 1875: “New York January 10th, 1875. John A. Buck, Fsq.: We have done nothing yet in way of charter, hav’nt even had an offer. We are caulking her deck. Mr. Ward said if we didn’t have it done they would cut her rate down. We have made up the brig’s accounts to the…
1Opinion of the CourtBarrows, J.
The defendant does not complain that the instructions were in any respect erroneous or defective, if an action for deceit could under any circumstances be maintained on account of such a representation as the defendant made to the plain’ tiffs, to operate, apparently, on their sympathies and generosity, and induce them to discharge the debt he owed them upon payment of a percentage. He claims that his letter to the plaintiffs *486contains only such vagne and indefinite appeals to their liberality “ as a person desiring to obtain favorable consideration in a settlement would be likely to make, and…
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