Northwestern Steamship Co. v. Dexter Horton & Co.

Citations

• 29 Wash. 565
• 70 P. 59
• 1902 Wash. LEXIS 616

Syllabus

<p>DECEIT-REPRESENTATIONS-SCIENTER-PLEADING.</p> <p>In an action to recover damages for false representations as to tbe solvency of a third person, the complaint is demurrable, when it avers that plaintiff was induced to make sale of a steamship upon positive representations by defendants of the solvency of the purchaser, that plaintiff had no other knowledge than that obtained from such representations, that the representations were false and the plaintiff injured thereby, but no averment is. made that the defendants had knowledge of the falsity of their representations, nor that the statements were made recklessly, without knowledge of their truth or falsity, nor specific facts stated from which fraudulent intent could be inferred.</p>