Clarkson v. Manson

The plaintiffs brought this suit against the defendant in the marine court of the city of New York to recover the sum of $195, as the balance unpaid on a sale of the fixtures of a store and bake-house. The answer put in in the state court sets up that the plaintiffs, with intent to defraud, falsely represented to the defendant that the bakehouse was a profitable business place, and that one Ott, a former proprietor of it, had done a profitable business at it, and thus induced the defendant to hire the store; that the plaintiffs also represented that they owned the store and the bakery…