Markowsky v. Rubenstein
Decision Date | 07 March 1921 |
Docket Number | 21568 |
Citation | 87 So. 278,124 Miss. 724 |
Court | Mississippi Supreme Court |
Parties | MARKOWSKY v. RUBENSTEIN ET AL |
FRAUD. Instruction inapplicable to issue.
In an action of fraud and deceit the defendant, under a plea of general issue, is not entitled to an instruction advising the jury that the plaintiff was not entitled to a verdict, until he proved to the satisfaction of the jury that the contract sued on was not only false, but that the defendant knew it was false at the time it was made, when the defendant testified that he had not made the alleged contract at all.
APPEAL from circuit court of Forrest county, HON. R. S. HALL, Judge.
Suit by Gust Markowsky against L. Rubenstein and another. Decree for defendants, and plaintiff appeals. Reversed and remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
Tally & Mayson, for appellant.
T Webber Wilson and N.C. Hill, for appellees.
No brief found in the record for counsel of either side.
The appellant in this case began this suit in the circuit court of Forrest county. Omitting the formal parts the declaration was as follows:
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