Altergott v. Yeager

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[T]he choice of remedies belongs to the one who has been defrauded, and may not be forced upon him by the wrongdoer.”
• action to affirm contract and sue for damages is an action in tort, while action to rescind the contract and sue for return of money paid is an action on contract
• “By an unbroken line of cases our courts have held that one defrauded has either the right to affirm the contract and sue for damages, or rescind the contract and sue for return of the money paid.... ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).