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196 N.C. 685

Isler v. Brown

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided February 27, 1929

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1929-02-27

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1929-02-27

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Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1974

4 state decisions

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Per OumAM.

¶1Fraud can be practiced by a suppressio veri or sug-gestio falsi. “It is a rule of equity, as well as of law, that a suppressio veri is equivalent to a suggestio falsi; and where either tbe suppression of tbe truth or tbe suggestion of what is false can be proved, in a fact material to tbe contract, tbe party injured may have relief against tbe contract.” 18 Johns., 405; Black’s Law Diet., p. 1040; McNair v. Finance Co., 191 N. C., at p. 715. This is good law as well as good morals.

¶2Tbe court below charged clearly and fully tbe law of actionable fraud applicable to tbe facts in this case. We find

¶3No error.

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