Jones v. Wing & Dean
Michigan Court of Chancery
Bill to rescind a contract on the ground of fraud. The statament of the case is sufficiently given in the opinion of the court. The conduct of the parties shows the merits of the case.
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Bill to rescind a contract on the ground of fraud. The statament of the case is sufficiently given in the opinion of the court. The conduct of the parties shows the merits of the case. The complainant so soon as he saw the lands told the witness, Lyon, that he had been cheated, and would have redress, and immediately on his return to Marshall, and meeting the defendant, Deane, he asserted his rights — declared himself to have been injured, and declared that he should apply to the laws for redress. This he has done, and what is the duty of this court I No complex questions of artificial rights…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The bill in this case charges that the com*304plainant (a resident of New York,) on the 1st of October, 1839, had at Marshall, in this state, a large quantity of goods.
That Wing and Dean, (the defendants,) were then merchants at Marshall, and that the complainant entrusted a part of the goods to them to be sold on his account.
That they proposed to buy the goods of the complainant, and pay for them in lands in the county of Clinton, and with a view to induce the complainant to take the lands, made to him the following representations : That of the one thousand two hundred acres, the…
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