Stone v. Doctor's Lake Milling Co
Decision Date | 17 November 1926 |
Docket Number | (No. 254.) |
Citation | 135 S.E. 449 |
Parties | STONE v. DOCTOR'S LAKE MILLING CO. et al. |
Court | North Carolina Supreme Court |
Appeal from Superior Court, Wake County; Barnhill, Judge.
Action by J. E. Stone against the Doctor's Lake Milling Company and another. Judgment of nonsuit, and plaintiff appeals. Affirmed.
Manning & Manning, of Raleigh, for appellant.
K. N. Simms, Douglass & Douglass, and J. W. Bailey, all of Raleigh, for appellees.
The following appears in the statement of case on appeal:
"Plaintiff having announced before the introduction of evidence that the cause of action was based on tort for damages for false and fraudulent representations, and the court being of the opinion that upon such cause of action and evidence offered the plaintiff is not entitled to recover, allowed the motion of the defendant for judgment as of nonsuit."
We cannot hold this ruling to be erroneous, as no action for the tort of deceit is set out in the complaint. It is not alleged that the false representations, upon which plaintiff says he relied to his injury, were made with knowledge of their falsity or with reckless disregard of their truth or falsity, nor is it alleged that such false representations were made with intent to deceive the plaintiff.
The general conditions under which factual misrepresentations may be made the basis of an action for deceit are stated in Pollock on Torts (12th Ed.) 283, as follows:
This formula has been approved by us in a number of decisions. Corley v. Griggs, 192 N. C. 171, 134 S. E. 406; Simpson v. Tobacco Growers, 190 N. C. 603, 130 S. E. 507; Hollingsworth v. Supreme Council, 175 N. C. 635, 96 S. E. 81, Ann. Cas. 1918E, 401; Whitehurst v. Ins. Co., 149 N. C. 273, 62 S. E. 1067. Speaking to the subject in Tarault v. Seip, 158 N. C. 363, 74 S. E. 3, Brown, J., said:
To like effect is the language of Varser, J., in Colt v. Kimball, 190 N. C. 169, 129 S. EL 406:
[citing authorities for the position].
Our decisions are to the effect that "where it is sought to base one's relief on the ground of fraud, the allegations of fact must...
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