Ingalls v. Miller

— Miller instituted a suit against Ingalls and another to recover a sum of money alleged to have been obtained from him by means of a conspiracy.

It is charged in the complaint that the defendants, one of whom was an attorney, falsely represented to the plaintiff, a mentally weak, illiterate, and infirm old man, that Ingalls had a meritorious cause of action against him, and that, unless the plaintiff settled and paid a sum of money demanded, suit would be instituted at once for a large amount, and that a judgment would be recovered against him, and that he would be subjected to costs, trouble…