Castleman v. Stryker
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: John McOourt, Judge. The plaintiff brought this action to recover on two promissory notes given by the defendants as a part of the consideration agreed to be paid by the defendants to the plaintiff for the purchase of a drug-store from the plaintiff by the defendant, H. F. Stryker.
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From Multnomah: John McOourt, Judge. The plaintiff brought this action to recover on two promissory notes given by the defendants as a part of the consideration agreed to be paid by the defendants to the plaintiff for the purchase of a drug-store from the plaintiff by the defendant, H. F. Stryker. The defendants, by their answer, admitted the execution and delivery of the notes, but as a defense against their liability thereon they allege that they had been induced to purchase the drug-store by certain alleged false and fraudulent representations made by the plaintiff prior to and at the time…
1Opinion of the CourtRand, J.
1. Obviously tbe pleader, by these averments, intended to allege that tbe sum of $12,750, which tbe defendants allege they bad been induced to pay to tbe plaintiff for all of tbe property, was an aggregate of different amounts which tbe defendants bad paid separately for tbe different items of property purchased. That is to say, that tbe defendants paid $1,000 for tbe goodwill of tbe business, $500 for the peanut machine, $500 for tbe soda fountain and $100 for tbe glass shelving and gum cases, and that these amounts, when added to tbe amounts paid for tbe remainder of tbe property,…
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