Hedin v. Minneapolis Medical & Surgical Institute

COLLINS, J;

This is an action for deceit. Defendant institute is a corporation, while defendant Lawrence is its president, the physician and surgeon in charge, and the person with whom plaintiff’ dealt, and to whom he paid the sum of $500 for medical treatment, which sum he alleges was obtained by defendants through false and fraudulent representations to him that certain injuries from which he was then suffering were curable, and that at the institute they could and would cure him for that amount of money. No question has been made as to the sufficiency of the complaint. Plaintiff had a…