Van Gilder v. Eagleson

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Teller.

Dependant in error had judgment in an action to rescind a contract with plaintiff in error The German American Indemnity Company on the ground of fraud.

The complaint, as amended, sets up a contract of employment of the plaintiff to sell stock for the company, with a provision that it might be cancelled at the end of sixty days, in which case fifteen hundred dollars, paid on a subscription for five hundred shares, and two notes of $750, each, paid for five hundred additional shares, were to be returned to him. It was further alleged that the contract was obtained…