Teague v. Irwin

Colt J.

The plaintiff, in the first count of his amended declaration, which is in tort, alleges that he bought stock in the Winthrop & Point Shirley Railroad Company of the defendant, who was then president of that corporation, upon false and fraudulent representations by the latter that the company was solvent; that its capital stock had all been paid in; that it was able to lay its track and provide rolling stock and pay all bills contracted; and that its stock was not for sale, and the plaintiff could not buy it anywhere but of him. There were "other representations alleged to have been…