Barnhart v. Riddle
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Centre county. This was an action of debt, by John H. Barnhart against William Riddle, on the following “Article of agreement, made and concluded this 29th day of November, 1848, between John H. Barnhart, of the first part, and William Riddle, of the second part.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Centre county. This was an action of debt, by John H. Barnhart against William Riddle, on the following “Article of agreement, made and concluded this 29th day of November, 1848, between John H. Barnhart, of the first part, and William Riddle, of the second part. Said John H. Barnhart hath sold and delivered to William Riddle his entire interest of stock of goods, and also of the books of the store at Pleasant Gap, for the consideration of $800— said William Riddle doth agree to pay on the above amount $400, on the 1st day of May, 1849, and the balance on the 1st…
1Opinion of the Court
*96The opinion of the court was delivered by
Woodward, J.
Sued for the money which by the agreement of 29th November, 1848, he had bound himself to pay, the defendant offered and was permitted to show that the agreement was founded on a statement of the debts of the firm which was prepared and shown to him with the knowledge and sanction of the plaintiff, and which, through fraud or mistake, was grossly inaccurate. Though represented as containing a substantially true state of the concern, the schedule omitted an aggregate of indebtedness greatly exceeding the whole purchase-money to be paid. The…
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