Schwitters v. Springer

The appellee sued appellant in an action on the case for fraud and deceit, whereby the appellee received in exchange for eight hundred acres of land in Colorado two notes for $1000 each, which were worthless. The notes were two of the series of $75,000 described in the case of Leonard v. Springer, 197 Ill. 532, and the declaration is substantially a duplicate of the declaration in'that case so far as it relates to the fraudulent scheme of deceit conceived and carried out by the appellant for the purpose of swindling the purchasers of the. series of notes mentioned and the execution of the…