Salhinger v. Salhinger

Citations

• 56 Wash. 134
• 105 P. 236
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 862

Syllabus

<p>Partnership — Rights or Partners — Fraud. A copartnership raises a strong fiduciary relation, requiring the utmost good faith and rendering a partner liable for false representations or concealment in securing a partnership settlement.</p> <p>Partnership — Settlement—Fraud. A partnership settlement should be set aside for fraud where the parties to the action were brothers and partners, the plaintiff was in ill health and weak-minded and subject to the defendant’s influence, and the defendant, who had been in active charge of the partnership, the property of which was of the value of sixty thousand dollars, represented it as valueless and the business without profit and thereby, and by his influence over the plaintiff, who relied on the statements, fraudulently secured the settlement with the plaintiff for a small sum; as such statements are representations of material facts,. relied upon by the plaintiff to his injury.</p>