42 Cal. App. 563 - Bechtold v. Coney’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1954
10 state decisions
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““If this contention were true, it would never be possible to avoid a written contract- for fraudulent misrepresentations unless such misrepresentations were also in writing and made a part of the contract. This clearly is not the law. The Civil Code provides (sec. 1566) that a contract may be rescinded where the consent is not free, and in the following section it is provided that consent is not free when such consent is induced by fraud. Actual- fraud is defined in section 1572 of the Civil Code. The plaintiffs, in attempting to show actual fraud, as defined by said last-mentioned section, were entitled to show all the matters of inducement for entering into the contract. Actual fraud is always a question of fact (Civ. Code, sec. 1574), and the trial court has made very complete findings covering numerous fraudulent misrepresentations by the defendant, any one of which is sufficient to warrant the relief granted to the plaintiffs.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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