Case ID: ny_236/html/0629-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Guy C. Smith, Respondent, v. Isaac E. Chadwick, Appellant.
    
      Fraud — false representations — contract — action to recover damages for false representations whereby plaintiff was induced to enter into a contract.
    
    
      Smith v. Chadwick, 206 App. Div. 606, affirmed.
    (Argued June 13, 1923;
    decided July 13, 1923.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered March 5, 1923, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict. The action was brought to recover damages for alleged fraud in the making of a contract for the foreign exhibition rights of a motion picture. The complaint alleged that the defendant made certain statements and representations to the plaintiff; that each of such representations was untrue; that they were known by the defendant to be false when he made them; that they were made with the intent that the plaintiff should rely upon them; that the plaintiff relied upon said representations and in reliance thereon entered into said purported contract and was induced to do so by said representations.
    
      Gerson C. Young for appellant.
    
      Clarence M. Lewis and W. N. Seligsberg for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Hogan, Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane and Andrews, JJ.