Williams v. Joslin

How courts have described this case

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• reversing a judgment for rescission of contract based on fraud when the plaintiff failed to show any interest in the records that might have contradicted defendants’ representations
• A representee has a duty to use due diligence and investigate representations before his reliance is justified.
• A representee has a duty to use due diligence and investigate representations before his reliance is justified.
• in order to make out a claim of common law fraud “the speaker [must have] knowledge of its falsity”
• motel buyer who possessed deposit slip documents showing motel’s income did not reasonably rely on contradictory oral representation of income

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).