Tichenor v. Hayes
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Demurrer to narr. The declaration contained six counts, that related to two classes of transactions. The first class of counts was founded on a breach of duty in the defendant’s intestate, arising out of an alleged retainer of such intestate, as an attorney at law, by the plaintiff" in regard to certain mortgages about to be purchased by the plaintiff, by means of which his money was lost.
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Demurrer to narr. The declaration contained six counts, that related to two classes of transactions. The first class of counts was founded on a breach of duty in the defendant’s intestate, arising out of an alleged retainer of such intestate, as an attorney at law, by the plaintiff" in regard to certain mortgages about to be purchased by the plaintiff, by means of which his money was lost. The second class alleged that the plaintiff was nsduced, by the deceitful and fraudulent misrepresentations of-such intestate, to invest his money in the purchase of certain mortgages; that the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Beasley, Chief Justice.
This is a suit against an administratrix. Some of the counts in the declaration, which is demurred to, are founded on a breach of duty in the defendant’s intestate, as an attorney at law, in investigating the title and condition, with respect to encumbrances, of a certain property upon which the plaintiff was about to take a mortgage, and whereby the plaintiff lost the money invested by him. The other counts allege, as the gravamen of the action, certain false and fraudulent representations made by such intestate with respect to…
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