Gilfillen v. Moorhead
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for fraud and collusion in the sale of certain real estate, praying for a conveyance of the land from one of the defendants and for damages from both, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Roraback, J., upon a demurrer to the complaint; the court sustained the demurrer and rendered judgment for the defendant, and the plaintiff appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Action for fraud and collusion in the sale of certain real estate, praying for a conveyance of the land from one of the defendants and for damages from both, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Roraback, J., upon a demurrer to the complaint; the court sustained the demurrer and rendered judgment for the defendant, and the plaintiff appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The complaint asked for a judgment for damages against both defendants, Moorhead and Donnelly, and that the defendant Donnelly be required to convey a certain tract of…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The defendants—one of whom was a real estate dealer in whose hands had been placed to be sold, for $4,500, a tract of land 100 feet on Norton Street—falsely represented to the plaintiff that the owner, Mrs. Hatch, had sold to Donnelly, the other defendant, 45 feet of said tract, that he had paid her $1,000 therefor, and that she asked $4,500 for the remaining 55 feet. Believing said statements the plaintiff paid $4,500 for said tract of 55 feet on Norton Street, and after-wards, on the same day and without having received any further consideration therefor, Mrs. Hatch conveyed to said…
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