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116 Mass. 396

Moore v. Cains

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided December 11, 1874

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1874-12-11

Tort for fraudulent representations, whereby the plaintiff claimed to have been fraudulently induced to enter into a copartnership with the defendant for the manufacture of glass at South Boston, under the style of the Phoenix Glass Works.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently January 1936

1 state decisions

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Decided 1874-12-11

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Ames, J.

¶1The partnership, according to its terms, was to continue for the period of five years. The defendant had no such title in the premises that he could give any assurance that the firm could have an undisturbed occupation for that, or, indeed, for any fixed period. His wife was the owner of the estate, subject to certain mortgages, and whatever authority she had given to the defendant in relation to it was permissive only, and revocable at her pleasure. So insecure and slight a title was not a compliance with the partnership agreement. The question of the materiality of the defendant’s representation was properly left to the jury, and the rulings of the presiding judge were correct.

¶2Exceptions overruled.

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