Wilcox v. Ellis
Hawaii Supreme Court
Appeal prom Decision op the Chancellor. A sale of shares of stock set aside for the fraud of the seller; it appearing that the seller made false representations as to the value of the stock, intending that the buyer should aet upon them, and the buyer acted upon them, although he could, by diligent enquiry, have ascertained that they were untrue.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Chancellor Appealed prom.
This is a bill to declare fraudulent and void a sale made by defendant to plaintiff of sixty shares of the capital stock of the Ho*336nolulu Ice Company, a corporation under Hawaiian law,, at $70 per share, and also for an injunction to restrain defendant from taking out an execution upon a judgment for $4,200 obtained by the defendant against the plaintiff at the last July term of this Court for the purchase money of this stock.
The bill charges that the fraud was accomplished by misrepresentation and by the concealment of material facts. The…
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