Arnold v. National Aniline & Chemical Co.

(after stating the facts as above). . The assumption of the court that the representations were false makes it impossible to determine how material was the falsity of the representations, or what loss the defendants incurred by taking over sales contracts which may not have been anything like what on their face they seemed. It may be- that the situation, if it had been properly developed, was such that no question of fraud could have been properly submitted to a jury. But the court assumed that the representations said to have been made as an inducement to the execution of the contract were…