Union Trust Corp. v. Fugate

This proceeding is based upon a charge of fraud and deceit. It involves a transaction whereby certain notes for the payment of money were alleged to have been sold upon false and untrue representations that they were secured by a deed of trust constituting a first lien upon real estate.

The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, T. H. Fugate. The trial court sustained the verdict. The defendant asks us to set aside the judgment as contrary to the law and the evidence, and for alleged errors of law committed during the trial.

The parties will be referred to hereinafter as plaintiff and…