Ramsey v. Wallace
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION, tried before Connor, J., at February Term, 1888, of the Superior Court of Iredell County. . The complaint alleges that the plaintiff, desiring to purchase a lot in the town of Statesville, on which to erect a factory, with the necessary buildings, in which to carry on the business of manufacturing tobacco, and so informing the defendant, entered into a negotiation for the purchase of that hereinafter mentioned, for which the sum of $500 was demanded.
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Civil ACTION, tried before Connor, J., at February Term, 1888, of the Superior Court of Iredell County. . The complaint alleges that the plaintiff, desiring to purchase a lot in the town of Statesville, on which to erect a factory, with the necessary buildings, in which to carry on the business of manufacturing tobacco, and so informing the defendant, entered into a negotiation for the purchase of that hereinafter mentioned, for which the sum of $500 was demanded. To induce the purchase, the defendants falsely and fraudulently represented that the boundary of the lot began at a stake, the…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, C. J.,
(after stating the case). We do not see any .just ground of complaint, which the plaintiffs can prefer; either in declining to charge the jury as requested, or in the ■statement of the law, in the directions given them by the Judge.
What more favorable to the plaintiffs could be asked than an instruction, that, if the defendant David Wallace represented at the time of the sale, or pending the negotiation that looked to this end, “that the boundary of the lot” began as plaintiffs alleged, and that said representation was false, and that the defendant knew it to be false, or had no…
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