Cauman v. Biggar

These two actions were tried together. There was evidence that the plaintiff was induced to enter into a written lease of real estate to the Merchant Tailors’ Manufacturing Company, a Massachusetts corporation, hereinafter called the Company, as a result of fraudulent *92representations made by the defendant Walter Biggar, personally, and as agent of the other defendant. The misrepresentations were that the stock of the company to the extent of $50,000 had been subscribed for and $20,000 paid in in cash, when in fact, as the defendant Biggar knew, but $6,600 had been subscribed and only $4,400…