Matthews v. State Mortgage & Investment Co.

By the Court.

These cases originated in the court of common pleas of Cuyahoga county. In that court and in the Court of Appeals they were heard and submitted together, and will be so considered and decided by this court; the parties being referred to as they appear in the lower courts.

The plaintiffs sought a rescission of their several contracts of purchase of stock of the defendant company, the grounds set up in their petitions and amended petitions being, in substance, as follows: That the duly authorized salesman and agent of the defendant company, for the purpose and with the effect of…