Carvill v. Jacks
Supreme Court of Arkansas
ERROR to Phillips Circuit Court. Hon. J. N. Cypert, Judge. Where a vendor during a negotiation for a sale makes a false and fraudulent representation that induces another to purchase, he is responsible for the damage sustained, by the purchaser, although the fraudulent representations were not made directly to him, but to another.
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ERROR to Phillips Circuit Court. Hon. J. N. Cypert, Judge. Where a vendor during a negotiation for a sale makes a false and fraudulent representation that induces another to purchase, he is responsible for the damage sustained, by the purchaser, although the fraudulent representations were not made directly to him, but to another. Alexander v. Beresford, 5 Cushman, (Miss.), 747. In civil as well as criminal matters, a person is responsible for all consequences that reasonably result from his acts. A warranty knowingly false, may be waived as a contract and an action for fraud maintained.…
1Opinion of the Court
DuVal, S. J.
Prior to the 2nd day of December A. D. 1881, the appellant instituted an action in the Circuit Court of Phillips county against the appellee for damages for the loss of the land she was induced to buy from him by his false and fraudulent representations as to'his title, and for improvements made thereon. She laid her damages at the sum of twelve hundred and fifty dollars.
The facts set forth in her complaint are substantially : That appellee represented to her that he held the land mentioned and described in her complaint under a deed executed to him under a purchase at a sale of…
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