McDonald v. McNeil
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action of tort for deceit. Plea, the general issue. Trial by-jury at the March Term, 1916, Washington County, Butter, «J., presiding. Verdict for plaintiff. Defendant excepted. At the close of all the evidence, defendant moved for a directed verdict, the ground of which motion is stated in the opinion. Motion overruled, defendant excepted. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
This is a tort action for false representations whereby the plaintiff was induced to purchase a eértain piece of real estate. There was evidence tending to show that the defendant, who owned a piece of land on the shore of Cold Stream Lake, in Penobscot County, Maine, by falsely and fraudulently representing to the plaintiff that a ninety acre lot contiguous to the one above mentioned had growing upon it eight hundred large hemlock trees, one hundred and fifty-three large pine trees, a certain large number of cords of bobbin-stock white-birch, and other valuable wood and timber, and that…
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