Arneson v. Copeman

Citations

• 119 Wash. 659
• 206 P. 355
• 1922 Wash. LEXIS 833

Syllabus

<p>Fraud (22) — Evidence—Sufficiency. Obscurity in the language of a written contract is not alone sufficient to establish fraud, in the absence of any evidence of overreaching.</p> <p>Executors and Administrators (154) — Actions — Judgment— Lien. In an action against an executor to recover money collected by the decedent under an agreement on the sale of mining claims, contemplating also an incorporation of a company and a further payment in stock, the plaintiff is not entitled to have the judgment recovered declared a specific lien on the money of the estate, in the absence of proof of fraud, and cannot ask more than the establishment of a lien against decedent’s interest in the mining claims, no company having been formed or stock delivered.</p>