Supreme Court of the United States April 27, 1903, 174 (Wiser v. Lawler)

Mr. Justice Brown,

after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The principal defendants to this suit are Lawler and Wells,

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(hereinafter termed “ the defendants ”) and the ease turns upon their complicity in and responsibility for the contents of the prospectuses, which are full of exaggerated and delusive statements, and were undoubtedly a gross fraud upon