 | United States. Court of Claims - 1919 - 740 pages
...contracting party not in actual fault has a right, however, to rely upon the express statement of an existing fact, the truth of which is known to the...of knowledge, has deliberately pledged his faith." Quoted with approval from Bigelow on Frauds in Hingston v. Smith Company, supra. Where the false statement... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 732 pages
...the basis of a mutual engagement ; and he is under no obligation investigate and verify statements to the truth of which the other party to the contract,...of knowledge, has deliberately pledged his faith. This was so held in a case of false representations as to the contents of a mortgage on record. The... | |
 | Law - 1874 - 436 pages
...the basis of a mutual engagement, and he is under no obligation to investigate and verify statements to the truth of which, the other party to the contract,...of knowledge, has deliberately pledged his faith." The court in Ellis v. Andrews in substance held that the vendee was guilty of negligence in relying... | |
 | William Wait - Civil procedure - 1872 - 950 pages
...basis of a mutual engagement ; and that he is under no obligation to investigate and verify statements, to the truth of which the other party to the contract,...of knowledge, has deliberately pledged his faith. Mead v. Sunn, 32 NY (5 Tiff.) 275 ; Blossom v. Barrett, 37 id. (10 id.) 434 ; SC, 5 Trans. App. 36... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 690 pages
...the basis of a mutual engagement; and he is under no obligation to investigate and verify statements, to the truth of which, the other party to the contract,...of knowledge, has deliberately pledged his faith." In Frenzel v. Miller, 37 Ind. 1, a different doctrine waa declared by this court on the subject now... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 1156 pages
...tlie basis of a mutual agreement; and he is under no obligation to investigate and verify statements to the truth of which the other party to the contract,...of knowledge, has deliberately pledged his faith." Mead v. Bunn, 32 NY 275. To the same effect are Eaton v. Winnie, 20 Mich. 156, McBeth v. Craddock,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1134 pages
...the basis of a mutual engagement; and he Is under no obligation to investigate or verify statements, to the truth of which the other party to the contract,...of knowledge, has deliberately pledged his faith." Accordingly it was held in David v. Park, 103 Mass. 501, that a distinct statement of fact by a seller,... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Torts - 1888 - 1060 pages
...basis of a mutual engagement ; and he is under no obligation to investigate and verify statements, to the truth of which the other party to the contract,...of knowledge, has deliberately pledged his faith." In the case then under consider1 Chamberlain «. Rankin, 49 Vt subject of which another may well f«... | |
 | Charles Fisk Beach (Jr.) - Railroad law - 1890 - 804 pages
...a basis of a mutual engagement, and he is under no obligation to investigate and verify statements, to the truth of which the other party to the contract,...of knowledge, has deliberately pledged his faith." ' But misrepresentations with respect to matters of which the subscriber has the means of knowing the... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, Edwin Burritt Smith, Martin L. Newell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 700 pages
...basis of a mutual engagement. * * * And he is under no obligation to investigate and verify statements, to the truth of which the other party to the contract,...of knowledge, has deliberately pledged his faith." See also McClellan v. Scott, 24 Wis. 81; Converse v. Blumrich, 14 Mich. 108. If one makes false representations,... | |
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Every contractIng party has an absolute right to rely on the express statement of an existing fact, the truth of which is known to the opposite party and unknown to him, as the basis of a mutual engagement; and he Is under no obligation to investigate... 
