Hurst v. Duff’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““In view of the fact that the majority of mankind deal honestly with each other, fraud is never presumed, but must be affirmatively proved. _ Fraud cannot be sustained by mere suspicion, strained inference or conjecture. Evidence which produces a vague misgiving is not enough. The rule in every case is that there must be such legal evidence as is sufficient to overcome in the mind the legal presumption of innocence, and beget a belief of the truth of the allegation of fraud.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. E. L. Martin & Co. v. Osborne