Allen v. Pulfer’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““The promises made to complainants have not been kept. That complainants were in fact deceived cannot be doubted. I am satisfied from the testimony that deceit — actual inducing of beliefs, based upon speculative statements accepted by complainants as true, affecting and intended to affect the action of complainants to their detriment and to the advantage of defendants — was practiced, and was intended to be practiced.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kefuss v. Whitley