Kornblau v. McDermant
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for damages for fraudulent representations' in effecting a sale of a restaurant together with its good-will, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Webb, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $2,700, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The plaintiff offered evidence to prove these facts: On May 2d, 1913, he purchased of the defendant a lunch-room and restaurant, known as ’the “Stamford Lunch,” which was located at Stamford. The transfer consisted of the business and its goodwill, certain fixtures and the stock in trade, and was evidenced by a bill of sale. As an inducing cause of the sale the defendant represented in an affidavit accompanying the bill of sale and made by him, that he was the “sole and absolute owner of said business,” and that “no other person, firm or corporation had any claim of, in and to the said…
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