Cooper v. Schlesinger

Citations

• 111 U.S. 148
• 4 S. Ct. 360
• 28 L. Ed. 382
• 1884 U.S. LEXIS 1769

Syllabus

<p>Damages — Fraudulent Representations — Trial.</p> <p>. Where a charge embraces several distinct propositions, a general exception is of no effect if any one of them is correct.</p> <p>When the issue made up by the pleadings and evidence for the jury is whether one party was induced to enter into the contract in suit by false and fraudulent representations of the other party, and isolated passages from the charge are excepted to, if the charge as a whole and in substance instructs the jury that a statement recklessly made without knowledge of its truth was a false statement knowingly made, within the settled rule, it is sufficient and will be supported.'</p> <p>Where a person is induced by false representations to buy an article at an agreed price/ to be delivered on his future order, the measure Of damages, in an action to recover for the injury caused by the deceit, is the diminution caused thereby in the market price at the time of delivery.</p>