Savage v. Jackson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Motion for new trial, in Baker Superior Court. Decided; by Judge Perkins, November Term, 1854. This was an action for deceit, brought by John Jackson vs. Caesar A. Savage, in false representations as to the solvency of one P. B. Bond. The testimony, as to the representation, was as follows: Wm.
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Motion for new trial, in Baker Superior Court. Decided; by Judge Perkins, November Term, 1854. This was an action for deceit, brought by John Jackson vs. Caesar A. Savage, in false representations as to the solvency of one P. B. Bond. The testimony, as to the representation, was as follows: Wm. W. Manna testified: That he was clerk of John Jackson, and had a conversation with defendant (Savage) sometime in the month of February, 1847, relative to renting a certain store-house in Albany, known as the “ Red House,” belonging to Jackson, to Mr. P. B. Bond, who the defendant represented to be his…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Benning, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] The verdict in this case, as it seems to us, was contrary to lawr. If there is any decision to give it support, it must be the decision in Pasley vs. Freeman, (3 T. R. 51 ; 2 Smith’s Lead. Cases, 55.) But the decision in that case is-*307not one to give it support,.for that case differed from this, in. essential particulars.
1. In .that case, the representation made was, that the- purchaser of the goods was a person “safely to be trusted and-given credit to,” in “ respect” to the very goods, in respect to which he was trusted — sixteen bags-of…
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