Kirkland v. Dressel

Citations

• 104 Wash. 668
• 177 P. 643

Syllabus

<p>Fraud (4) — Expression op Opinion. Representations and assurances by a trustee for creditors, and purchasers from °it, given to the debtor’s parents to whom he was indebted for' services and money loaned, whereby the parents were induced not to file claims with the trustee, do not constitute actionable fraud, where, at most, they amounted only to expressions of opinion that the business would pay all creditors and leave sufficient to the son to pay them, especially where it seems they were largely actuated by a desire to aid their son by withholding their claims.</p> <p>Frauds, Statute op (1) — Contract to Answer for Debt of Another. Oral promises by a trustee for creditors that claims would be paid in full fall within the inhibition of the statute of frauds.</p>