Belcher v. Costello
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for deceit. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Pitman, J., the jury found for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which, so far as material, appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtEndicott, J.
The defendant, having bought merchandise of the plaintiff, and paid a portion of the purchase money in cash, gave as collateral security for the balance certain notes of third persons, one of which was secured by a mortgage of real estate. The plaintiff offered evidence that the defendant represented that the notes and the persons who made them were good, and that the land covered by the mortgage had been gold for $2600. It appears in the papers that this alleged sale was made by one Lowell to Currier, and that Currier gave back *190to Lowell the mortgage in question, which was afterwards…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Parsons v. WellesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1821
3Cited by19 opinions
- Deming v. DarlingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
- Kilgore v. BruceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
- Andrews v. JacksonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
- Kimber v. YoungCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1905
- Nash v. Minnesota Title Insurance & Trust Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
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