Oudin v. Crossman

Citations

• 15 Wash. 519
• 46 P. 1047
• 1896 Wash. LEXIS 239

Syllabus

<p>FRAUD — SUFFICIENCY OF EVIDENCE — COMMUNITY LIABILITY.</p> <p>In an action to recover a sum of money, which plaintiff had been induced to pay for the purchase of a mine in reliance upon false representations of the defendants, evidence is admissible showing that the defendants had made representations to other parties than plaintiff, and to the people in the vicinity generally, regarding the existence and character of the mine and the value of its ores, such representations being part of one continuous scheme or transaction for the purpose of selling the mine to any one that could be induced to buy.</p> <p>A judgment for plaintiff, in an action to recover money paid for the purchase of a mine, will not be disturbed when there is evidence tending to show that the mine in fact had no existence, the location being invalid, and that the ore exhibited as a sample did not come from the mine at all.</p> <p>A judgment against husband and wife is warranted in an action to recover money which plaintiff was induced to pay for certain property upon the false representations of the husband, when title to the property was in the wife’s name and the consideration therefor was community property.</p>