Howard v. Cadwalader

This was an action of debt by the appellants against the appellee, founded upon a sealed note. The third plea alleges, that the note was given in consideration of the sale and for the price of fourteen volumes of a certain medical work, sold by the- appellants to the appellee; that by a false and fraudulent warranty that the “work was an improved system of one Samuel Thompson's system of botanic medicine,” the appellants induced the appellee to make the purchase; that the work so purchased was not an improved system of said Samuel Thompson's system of botanic medicine; and that the appellants…