Jackson v. Collins

Collins sued Jackson in an action on the case for fraudulently inducing him to buy out a stock of goods belonging to his wife for wdiom he acted as manager, which were not as represented.

Mrs. Jackson had a stock of dry and millinery goods at Marquette, and on the 6th day of November, 1876, she sold them to Collins at five per cent beyond the inventory price, agreeing not to engage in the dry, fancy or millinery goods business in that place for five years, unless the purchaser and his sons meanwhile went out of trade.

The fraud complained of was falsehood in representing that th£ goods were…