Holbrook v. Connor
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions and motion to set aside the verdict as against law, and the weight of evidence, and because the allegations do not support it. Case for deceit in the sale of land. The defendant Lancey, claimed to be the owner of two hundred acres of land in Canada. The other defendant, acting as the agent of Lancey, came to Maine for the purpose of getting up an association of individuals to whom he might sell the land for the purpose of manufacturing oil.
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On exceptions and motion to set aside the verdict as against law, and the weight of evidence, and because the allegations do not support it. Case for deceit in the sale of land. The defendant Lancey, claimed to be the owner of two hundred acres of land in Canada. The other defendant, acting as the agent of Lancey, came to Maine for the purpose of getting up an association of individuals to whom he might sell the land for the purpose of manufacturing oil. A paper was drawn and signed by Connor, for Lancey, therein stipulating, among other things, that Lancey would put fifty acres of the land…
1Opinion of the CourtDanforth, J.
The declaration in the writ in this case, after some preliminary allegations, sets out that the plaintiff, ‘ relying „upon the aforesaid representations of the said defendants, that said lands had large deposits of oil in them, and were of great value for the purposes of digging, boring for, and manufacturing oil, and that said Lancey and said Connor had actually paid the sum of $14,000 therefor, was induced to enter into a joint stock company, with other persons, and to subscribe for and buy of said defendants, twenty shares in said alleged oil lands and oil well, and for which he then and…
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