62 So. 2d 32 - Smith v. Irvine’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““Here the purchaser-mortgagor is undertaking to invoke initially the jurisdiction of the equity court to present a claim we think is purely one in law. The respondent does not seek rescission of the contract because it was infected with fraud; he wishes to retain what he bought and to be awarded an out and out judgment for damages that were evidenced by the difference between his anticipated and actual earnings, a disparity he would not have experienced, he says, had the seller not lied to him.” [ 62 So.2d 34 .]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. Irvine