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Supreme Court of Kansas· 5/7/1910

Hutto v. Knowlton

Citations

  • 82 Kan. 445
  • 108 P. 825
  • 1910 Kan. LEXIS 278

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Limitation of Actions — Fraud—Notice—Public Records. The rule that, if an examination of the public records would reveal a fraud, the records themselves furnish sufficient constructive notice of the fraud to set the statute of limitations in motion does not obtain in favor of a vendee of real estate who procured his conveyance by means of false and fraudulent representations respecting the state of the record, upon which the vendor innocently relied.</p>

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  • “Where fiduciary 20 *** FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST’S HAWAIʻI REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER *** relations exist requiring the disclosure of the true state of facts, there is no reason to anticipate unfaithfulness, and the obligation to search the record is relaxed.”

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Judges: Burch

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