Lowe v. Hendrick
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for fraud in inducing the plaintiffs to enter into a contract for the purchase of real estate, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Burpee, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiffs for $4,021, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The finding, as modified by the paragraphs of the draft-finding marked proven, states that the defendant fraudulently induced the plaintiffs to enter into a joint contract for the purchase of real estate for the purpose of selling again within a short time at a profit, by falsely representing that the price of the real estate was $18,000; that $8,000 of this purchase price must be paid in cash, one half to be paid by the defendant and the other half by the plaintiffs; and, as further inducement for said joint contract, the defendant represented that the balance of the purchase price could…
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