E. M. Fleischmann Lumber Corp. v. Resources Corp. International

RODNEY, District Judge.

This matter involves the allowability of interest in connection with the damages recoverable in an action of tort based upon the reliance by the plaintiffs upon the untrue or fraudulent representations of the defendant. The facts of the case are set out in a former opinion of this court reported in 105 F.Supp. 681. It was there determined that the plaintiff had a cause of action, but the question of damages was severed for separate determination. Succinctly, the matter involved the question of the purchase by the plaintiff from the defendant of timber rights in a tract…