Case Name: Demorest v. Eastman & a.
Court: New Hampshire Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Hampshire
Decision Date: 1879-06
Citations: 59 N.H. 65
Docket Number: 
Parties: Demorest v. Eastman & a.
Judges: Foster, J., did not sit: the others concurred.
Reporter: New Hampshire Reports
Volume: 59
Pages: 65–65

Head Matter:
Demorest v. Eastman & a.
No action can be maintained to recover the price of goods which the vendee has been induced to purchase through the fraudulent representations of the plaintiff, if the vendee, upon discovery of the fraud, seasonably offers to return them.
Assumpsit, to recover for goods sold. Facts found by the court. The defendants, by means of the false representations of the plaintiff’s agent, of which she had knowledge and subsequently ratified, were induced to purchase the goods in question. Subsequently, upon discovery of the fraud, they seasonably notified the plaintiff that they rescinded the contract of sale, and offered to return the goods, and afterwards kept them, subject to the plaintiff’s order.
Hobbs and Fife, for the plaintiff.
Pitman and Smith, for the defendants.

Opinion:
Stanley, J.
The defendants had the right to rescind, and having notified the plaintiff to that effect, and offered to return the goods, no action can now be maintained against them to recover the price.
Exception overruled.
Foster, J., did not sit: the others concurred.