Light v. Jacobs
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed August 29, 1902, to rescind a contract between the plaintiff and the defendant Jacobs, alleged to have been induced by fraudulent representations and acts of the defendants conspiring together, whereby they obtained from the plaintiff, a wholesale dealer in clothing in New York, goods of the value of $6,606.50, the defendant Jacobs giving as security a second mortgage on certain real estate in Boston, praying that the defendants Kaufman, Bilosky and…
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Bill in equity, filed August 29, 1902, to rescind a contract between the plaintiff and the defendant Jacobs, alleged to have been induced by fraudulent representations and acts of the defendants conspiring together, whereby they obtained from the plaintiff, a wholesale dealer in clothing in New York, goods of the value of $6,606.50, the defendant Jacobs giving as security a second mortgage on certain real estate in Boston, praying that the defendants Kaufman, Bilosky and Jacobovitz should be ordered to deliver to the plaintiff such of the goods as remained in their hands, and that the…
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
No counsel appeared for Jacobs at the argument before us, and the other three defendants, hereinafter called the defendants, contend that however guilty of fraud Jacobs may have been, they are innocent, and the decree against them should be reversed. We are unable to reach this conclusion. The fraud began by Kaufman, one of them, purchasing a parcel of land, taking the title in the name of a man of straw, who gave a mortgage upon it for nearly its full value, and a second mortgage for $10,500, whereas the value of the land over the first mortgage did not exceed $1,000. There was no…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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