Walker v. Hough

This was a bill in chancery, praying that a sale of certain lots in Chicago, by Hough to Walker, for stock in the Chicago Patent Wood Hangings Company, be cancelled, and the lots reconveyed to complainant on the return of the certificates of the stock, on the allegation of false and fraudulent representations, on which complainant relied, of the value of the stock.

Much testimony was heard, and the court found that Walker had made and caused to be made to complainant material and fraudulent representations, whereby he was induced to, and did. convey to Walker, the lots described in the bill of…