Tilden v. Greenwood
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Seven actions oe tort for false and fraudulent representations made by the defendant, between July 1 and July 6,1886, whereby the first named plaintiff was induced to hire a dwelling-house infected with diphtheria, to the injury of himself and his wife and children, who, with himself as administrator of deceased children, were the other plaintiffs.
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Seven actions oe tort for false and fraudulent representations made by the defendant, between July 1 and July 6,1886, whereby the first named plaintiff was induced to hire a dwelling-house infected with diphtheria, to the injury of himself and his wife and children, who, with himself as administrator of deceased children, were the other plaintiffs. The cases were tided together in the Superior Court, before Hammond, J., who ruled upon the evidence that neither action could be maintained, and directed in each case a verdict for the defendant, and reported the cases for the determination of…
1Opinion of the CourtC. Allen, J.
The ruling was a general one, that, on all the evidence, neither action could be maintained. If, therefore, it is found that in any essential particular the case of each of the several plaintiffs fails, judgment must be entered on the verdict for the defendant.
The actions were originally brought against Frederick P. Greenwood, Charles Greenwood, and Adeline Greenwood; but, for some reason not stated, at the close of the evidence, the *568plaintiff in each case discontinued as to all' the defendants except Frederick P. Greenwood. The alleged misrepresentations upon which the several actions rest…
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