Dutton v. Pyle

Citations

• 7 Pa. Super. 126
• 1898 Pa. Super. LEXIS 251

Syllabus

<p>Fraud — Misrepresentations—Essentials to establish cause of action.</p> <p>Eraucl must be proved; merely to arouse a suspicion thereof is not enough.</p> <p>To support an action, based on fraudulent inducements to plaintiff to purchase certain mortgages, it must be shown clearly that defendant made the alleged misrepresentations knowing them to be false, or with such conscious ignorance of their truth as to be equivalent to falsehood.</p> <p>Evidence — Action based on fraudulent misrepresentations inducing purchase.</p> <p>In an action based on alleged fraudulent misrepresentations as inducing the purchase of certain Kansas mortgages, it was not error to rejept an offer to prove trouble in collecting interest or principal, or to prove that at a remote period defendant had condemned all Kansas mortgages, or to show by a certain banker that witness had never loaned money in western Kansas.</p>