Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1857

Blanton v. . Wall

Blanton v. . Wall
Supreme Court of North Carolina · Decided August 5, 1857 · Pearson
49 N.C. 532

Blanton v. . Wall

Opinion of the Court

Pearson, J.

The count for a deceit alleges a scienter, and it is necessary to prove the allegation in order to support the count. Put the count for a false warranty does not allege a scienter. The allegation is, that there was a warranty of soundness, and that the warranty was false, in this, that the property was unsound. So, the gist of this count is a breach of the warranty, and there is no ground upon which it is necessary either to allege, or affirm, a scienter. Lassiter v. Ward, 11 Ire. Rep. 443. There is no error.

Per Cueiam. . Judgment affirmed.

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