Rand v. Bordo
Supreme Court of Vermont
Cash for deceit in the exchange of horses. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1910, Wind-ham County, Taylor, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion sufficiently states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
The bill of exceptions states that the declaration alleges that the defendant, knowing a certain brown mare to be unsound and infected with a certain disease, by warranting said mare to be sound and free from defects, and by concealing certain defects and unsoundness, fraudulently and deceitfully induced the plaintiff to make the exchange, and thereby deceived and defrauded the plaintiff.
It appeared that it was an even exchange; and the plaintiff’s evidence tended to show that the mare he received of the defendant, if sound and free from defects as defendant represented, would have been worth…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Sowles' Admr. v. SartwellSupreme Court of Vermont · 1903
- State v. DonovanSupreme Court of Vermont · 1903
- Bedell v. FossSupreme Court of Vermont · 1877
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