Backus v. Kirsch

The bill of complaint herein was filed on December 5, 1928. In it plaintiff alleged that in June of that year he was induced to sell certain shares of the capital stock of the Kirsch Manufacturing Company to the defendant by reason of false and fraudulent representations then made to him; that, on learning of their falsity, he had elected to rescind such sale, and had tendered to the defendant the money received by him thereon, and demanded a'return of his stock, which was refused. In his prayer for relief he asked that the sale be decreed to be void and the stock ordered returned to him, and…