Carnahan v. Moore

Citations

• 70 Wash. 623
• 127 P. 195
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1094

Syllabus

<p>Fraud — Deceit—Misrepresenting Price Paid — -Measure of Damages. Where defendant induced plaintiff to purchase, with him, certain lands by misrepresenting the price paid, the plaintiff can recover damages for the deceit, the measure being the difference between the price paid by defendant and the price paid to him by the plaintiff; the value of the land being immaterial as the plaintiff is entitled to his profit.</p> <p>Fraud — Deceit—Evidence—-Admissibility. In an action for damages for deceit in misrepresenting the price paid by defendant for a forty-acre tract of land, one-half of which was taken by the plaintiff, evidence of similar representations to another party who took the other half of the land is admissible as tending to show the representations made to the plaintiff, where the two sales were parts of one and the same transaction.</p>