Pettijohn v. . Williams’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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1. ““So, if you advertise a tract of land, and refer persons who may wish to buy A. B., who is well acquainted with the land, and will go upon it with them, and show the boundaries, etc., does it need authority of decided cases to show that he is your agent, and that if he makes a willful misrepresentation, and points out land as belonging to the tract, which, in fact, it does not include, and thereby enables you to sell at an extravagant price, that you can, after notice of the fraud, which he practiced, insist upon keeping the whole price, and take the benefit of his falsehood, without being guilty of a fraud, as well in law as in morals? Can a man lawfully do that by another which he cannot do by himself? Just as soon as you showed a disposition to hold onto your illgotten gains every honest man would exclaim: ‘You are just as guilty of a fraud as the vile instrument you made use of.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kell v. Trenchard