Keeler v. Lockwood

By the Court,

Nelson, Ch. J.

Keeler brought a suit in justice’s court against Lockwood, to recover the one half *138of a partnership debt, which they owed as partners, to' one H. & J., and which the plaintiff had paid'—the suit appears to have been a special action on the case, charging that the plaintiff was induced to make the payment in consequence of the fraudulent representations of the defendant that he was unable to pay any thing, and thereby not only compelled the plaintiff to pay the whole amount of the, debt, but induced him to exchange mutual releases under seal in consideration that he…