Riddell v. Kirby

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice McCandless

Reversing.

In an action for deceit, Joe Peck Kirby sought damages against John A. "Wallace and James S. Riddell. The petition alleged that the defendants, acting together-in pursuance of a conspiracy,' fraudulently represented. to him that he was in danger of losing his distributable share of an estate recovered for the death of a deceased son then being administered by A. M. Clark, and that, relying on their representations, he was induced to sell and assign his distributable share in that estate to Wallace for the sum of $800, when in fact and…