Harris v. Dunham

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that lack of knowledge cannot form basis of concealment of material fact
• holding an “experienced businessman” barred from recovery based in fraud where he engaged in a partial investigation into representations of the financial condition of the company he sought to purchase
• holding an “experienced businessman” barred from recovery based in fraud where he engaged in a partial investigation into representations of the financial condition of the company he sought to purchase
• “[O]ne who seeks to hold another in fraud must clearly show that he has relied upon the acts and statements of the other.”
• “business acumen” of a party relevant to reasonableness of that party’s reliance on the representations of another
• no fraud because purchaser did not read the company’s books available to him

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).