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· 4/13/1955

Johnson v. Cofer

Citations

  • 281 P.2d 981
  • 204 Or. 142
  • 1955 Ore. LEXIS 254

How courts have described this case

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  • “[T]he right to rely on representations presents the question of the duty of the party to whom the representations have been made to use diligence in respect to those representations.”
  • “Is it better to encourage negligence in the foolish, or fraud in the deceitful? Either course has obvious dangers. But judicial experience exemplifies that the former is the less objectionable and hampers less the administration of pure justice.”

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Judges: Warner, Rossman, Lusk, Brand, Latourette, Perry

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