Supreme Judicial Court of Maine July 1, 1872 (Holbrook v. Connor)

lead-opinion

Danforth, J.

The declaration in the writ in this case, after some preliminary allegations, sets out that the plaintiff, ‘ relying „upon the aforesaid representations of the said defendants, that said lands had large deposits of oil in them, and were of great value for the purposes of digging, boring for, and manufacturing oil, and that said Lancey and said Connor had actually paid