Gordon v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
March 1915
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dixon v. Hill · Ferris v. McQueen · Woods v. Gaar, Scott & Co. · Hough v. Dickinson · Lewis v. Rice
Most-quoted passages
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““The plaintiff was not a creditor of McDonald, but a purchaser; and, if he had knowledge of facts sufficient to put an ordinarily prudent man on inquiry, such knowledge on the part of Gordon would be sufficient to avoid the sale, without any active participation in the fraud by him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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