White v. Matzger

Citations

• 47 Wash. 347
• 92 P. 341
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 764

Syllabus

<p>Fraud—Conspiracy—Evidence—’Sufficiency. Where it appears that upon a sale of real estate, the vendor, an illiterate person without any business experience, desiring a rescission of the sale, was misled by the fraudulent advice of his attorney that he was under no obligation to complete the sale, and that he could get the land back if he would make a deed to the attorney for the purpose of arranging the matter and also thereby securing the attorney’s fee, there is no sufficient evidence that the vendor fraudulently colluded with the attorney to defraud certain banks, to whom the attorney made a deed of the premises as security for loans, especially where the loans to the attorney for the most part already existed, or were made upon the representations of the attorney, and without any examination of an abstract of title, which would have disclosed the inability of the vendor to make the deed to the attorney. .</p>