Connor v. Lasseter
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action on contract. Before Judge Smith. Wilcox superior court. November term, 1895. By the contract sued on, defendants obligated themselves to pay the plaintiff $65 per month as salary for services rendered as teacher of the Abbeville High School for a stated period.
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Action on contract. Before Judge Smith. Wilcox superior court. November term, 1895. By the contract sued on, defendants obligated themselves to pay the plaintiff $65 per month as salary for services rendered as teacher of the Abbeville High School for a stated period. Defendants pleaded, that they were induced and influenced to sign the contract by the fraud of plaintiff, he having held himself out as fit, competent and equipped under the laws of Georgia to contract to teach in the public schools of the State; whereas he was not so fit, competent and equipped, and knowingly misrepresented…
1Opinion of the Court
Lumpkin, Justice.
This was an action by Connor against Lasseter and others upon a written contract to pay him $65 per month as a salary for his services as a teacher. He alleged full performance of his contract, and sought to recover a balance claimed to be due him thereon. , Among other things, the defendants pleaded 'that they had been induced and influenced to sign the contract by reason of false and fraudulent representations on the part of the plaintiff to the effect that he possessed certain specified and essential qualifica*710tions as a teacher, which he did not in fact possess; and…
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