Vilett v. Moler
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the municipal court of Minneapolis against defendant Arthur B. Moler, doing business as the Moler System of Barber and Hair Dressing Colleges, and another to recover $177.57 and interest for deceit. The case was tried before Kerr, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $82.46. From an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendants appealed.
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Action in the municipal court of Minneapolis against defendant Arthur B. Moler, doing business as the Moler System of Barber and Hair Dressing Colleges, and another to recover $177.57 and interest for deceit. The case was tried before Kerr, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $82.46. From an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendants appealed. Plaintiff’s exception to the instructions of the court, referred to in the opinion, was as follows: “And we also except to that portion of the court’s charge wherein the court defines the elements of damage, and…
1Opinion of the Court
START, O. J.
This action was brought to recover damages which the plaintiff claimed to have sustained by the alleged false and fraudulent representations of the defendants, whereby he was induced to become a student in a barbers’ college owned by the defendant Arthur B. Moler, and operated by his co-defendant, in the city of Minneapolis, and to pay them the sum of $50 as tuition, and to incur and pay for board while attending the college the further sum of $28, and also the sum of $3.57 paid for railway fare. The plaintiff had a verdict *14for these items of his damages and interest (in all, the…
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