Sears v. Barker

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for St. Mary’s County, overruling a demurrer to the appellee’s bill of complaint. The bill of Margaret R. Barker, the appellee, alleges that by reason of certain false and fraudulent representations made to her prior to July 15th, 1920, by Richard H. Sears, in Paris, Eranee, she was induced to buy 4,888 shares of the capital stock of the La Paz Oil Corporation, incorporated under the laws of Delaware, for which she paid 10,000 English pounds, approximately $50,000 in money of the United States.

It appears from the bill that, some time prior…