St. John v. Hendrickson

By sifting the complaint of the appellee, and leaving out of consideration the mere matters of inducement and redundancy, we have the following material allegations : That the appellants were partners doing business under the style of “ The Lone Tree Medicine Company; ” that, to induce the appellee to invest in said partnership eight hundred dollars, they falsely represented to him that they each had invested therein the sum of eight hundred dollars, except St. John, whose skill in compounding the remedies which were manufactured and sold by the Medicine Company was estimated at that sum;…