Cook v. Gill
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the .Baltimore City Court, where the case was tried before the Court (Dobler, J.) without a jury. The plaintiff’s prayer, which was granted, was as follows : “ That if the Court shall believe, from the evidence in this case, that the defendant did falsely represent to the plaintiff, with knowledge at the time of the falsity of such representation, that he and certain other parties were shareholders in the Campbell Barrel Company, and that its stock was worth…
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Appeal from the .Baltimore City Court, where the case was tried before the Court (Dobler, J.) without a jury. The plaintiff’s prayer, which was granted, was as follows : “ That if the Court shall believe, from the evidence in this case, that the defendant did falsely represent to the plaintiff, with knowledge at the time of the falsity of such representation, that he and certain other parties were shareholders in the Campbell Barrel Company, and that its stock was worth eighty dollars a share, which was very low for it, and that it was a good investment, better than the Crown Cork and Seal…
1Opinion of the CourtBoyd, J.
The appellee sued the appellant to recover damages for alleged false, fraudulent and deceitful representations made by the latter to him which induced him to purchase fifty *186shares of stock of the Campbell Barrel Company at $75 per share, whereby he was cheated and defrauded. The case was tried before the Court without a jury and judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff. At the close of the plaintiff’s testimony the defendant offered a prayer that, “ the plaintiff having offered no evidence legally sufficient to sustain the material averments of the declaration, the verdict should be…
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