Bell v. Fritts

This is an appeal from a judgment in the sum of $250 rendered against appellant in favor of appellee, in the circuit court of Madison County, in a suit between them wherein appellee claimed damages in the sum of $1,160 on account of an alleged fraudulent sale of $400 of stock in the Bank of Richland to him by appellant. He alleged he was induced to buy and pay $1,160 for the stock, upon false and fraudulent representations made by appellant, to the effect that the value of the stock was $1.90 on the dollar, or ninety cents above par; that the stock earned a dividend of 36 per cent, on the…