Pigott v. Graham
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Albertson, J., entered January 3, 1907, upon sustaining a demurrer to the complaint, dismissing an action for damages for false representations inducing the execution of a contract.
1Opinion of the CourtDunbar, J.
The appellant brought an action against the respondent for damages alleged to have been caused by reason *349of the deceit and misrepresentation of respondent which induced him to enter into a certain contract. The material facts alleged in the complaint are, that the Metropolitan Press was a corporation having a capital of $60,000, consisting of six hundred shares of the par value of $100 each, and that said shares of stock were worth $65,000, of which stock the appellant, Pigott, owned four hundred and seventy-five shares; that the Graham-Hickman Company was a corporation having a capital of…
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