McDonald v. Goodkind
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal jrom District Court, Lewis and Clarice County/ II. N. Blahe, Judge, and II. C. Smith, Judge. Action by R. L. McDonald and others against E. I. Good-kind. From a judgment for plaintiffs, and from an order denying a new trial, defendant appeals.
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Appeal jrom District Court, Lewis and Clarice County/ II. N. Blahe, Judge, and II. C. Smith, Judge. Action by R. L. McDonald and others against E. I. Good-kind. From a judgment for plaintiffs, and from an order denying a new trial, defendant appeals. This is an action to rescind a contract of sale upon the ground of fraud on the part of the vendee, and to enable plaintiffs to recover, it must be shown that they parted with the goods in question under a bona fide reliance upon the false statements made by Israel to the Bradstreet Agency. (Dingle v. Trash (Colo.) 42 Pac. 186; 2 Pomeroy’s Eq.…
1Per curiam
Plaintiffs, merchants at St. Joseph, Mo., having received from one Israel, a merchant at Helena, Mont., an order for certain goods, to be shipped June 28, and to be paid for December 31, 1895, applied to the Bradstreet Company, a commercial agency, for information as to the financial standing and responsibility of the prospective purchaser, in order to determine whether the goods should be sold to him on credit, in response to which the Bradstreet Company, on June 10, furnished to plaintiffs a report based upon and containing a statement made by Israel to that company in February, 1895, in…
2Cited by1 opinion
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