Legal Opinion

Isler v. Brown

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided February 27, 1929PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Per OumAM.

Fraud can be practiced by a suppressio veri or sug-gestio falsi. “It is a rule of equity, as well as of law, that a suppressio veri is equivalent to a suggestio falsi; and where either tbe suppression of tbe truth or tbe suggestion of what is false can be proved, in a fact material to tbe contract, tbe party injured may have relief against tbe contract.” 18 Johns., 405; Black’s Law Diet., p. 1040; McNair v. Finance Co., 191 N. C., at p. 715. This is good law as well as good morals.

Tbe court below charged clearly and fully tbe law of actionable fraud applicable to tbe facts in this…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Boughton v. CarterNew York Supreme Court · 1820

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Ragsdale v. KennedySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1974
  2. Setzer v. OLD REPUBLIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANYSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1962
  3. Thomas-Yelverton Co. v. State Capital Life InsuranceSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1953
  4. Butler v. New York Life InsuranceSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1938
  5. Knowles v. . WallaceSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1936

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