State v. Salisbury Ice & Fuel Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Long, J., at November Term, 1913, of RowaN.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
C/The defendant was indicted for obtaining money by false pretenses, under Revisal, 3432, by selling to J. N. Smith and O. M. Henderlite a certain amount of coke represented to be one ton in weight, whereas it weighed 1,750 pounds, the defendant well knowing the pretense to be false. Said Henderlite was a competitor in trade of the defendant company, and he suspected that it was selling short weight. On 8 January, 1913, he called up the office of the defendant over the phone and asked the price of coke. The reply was $5. He ordered a ton sent to J. N. Smith at a certain corner,-and the…
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