Keyes v. Bradley
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Linn District Court — Hon. J. H. Preston, Judge. This is an action for the recovery of a sum of money obtained by defendant from plaintiff by a false representation, as is alleged, as to the price which he had paid for certain shares of mining stock which he had purchased for plaintiff while acting as his agent. There was a verdict and judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
The petition charges, in substance, that plaintiff employed or engaged defendant as his agent to purchase for him 3,000 shares of the stock of the Golden Summit Consolidated Gold Mining Company; that afterwards defendant purchased ’and delivered to him 3,000 shares of the stock of said company, representing to him that he had paid 50 cents per share therefor, which amount plaintiff thereupon paid him, but that in truth defendant had not paid more than cents per share for said stock. The answer admits that at the time alleged defendant delivered to plaintiff 3,000 shares of the stock of said…
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