Sleeper v. Smith
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for fraud alleged to have been practiced upon the plaintiff by the defendants in obtaining from her an assignment of a mortgage upon a farm in Enfield. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the October term, 1913, of the superior court by Chamberlin, J., on the' defendants’ exceptions to the denial of their motions for a nonsuit and the direction of a verdict in their favor. The evidence reported in the case is referred to in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The defendants’ motions for a nonsuit and for a directed verdict present the question of law, whether the evidence authorized the jury to find that the defendants made false and fraudulent representations to the plaintiff, intending thereby to induce her to sell her mortgage security to them for a sum far below its actual value, and that the plaintiff relied on and was induced by such representations to sell her mortgage for the sum mentioned. As there were no exceptions to the charge, it must be assumed that the jury were properly instructed in regard to the law of the case. The principal…
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