McLachlan v. Gordon
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Yakima county, Grady, J., entered July 8, 1914, upon findings in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for fraud, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHolcomb, J.
In April, 1914, there were two actions brought against defendants, one by one Monroe, and the present case, upon the same grounds, based upon representations of deceit and fraud on the part of F. E. Gordon, the husband, as an attorney at law, and of conspiracy between him and another attorney named Rankin, by which it was alleged the plaintiffs were deceived and defrauded into paying Gordon in each case a large sum of money, for the amount of which the several plaintiffs demanded damages. The allegations of deceit, fraud, and conspiracy in each cause were denied by the defendants by simple…
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