Sharkey v. Locke
Sharkey v. Locke
Opinion of the Court
This bill was for discovery and an account by parties alleged to have been agents for the plaintiffs in the sale of land and to have acted fraudulently. The material allegations in the bill are that the defendants were employed as agents to sell land owned ■by the plaintiffs; that they represented to the plaintiffs that they had sold the land to Foley and procured a conveyance to him when in fact they had sold to Crothers for a much larger price; that Foley, who immediately conveyed to Crothers, was used as a “straw man” to conceal the real transaction.
It was found by the court that these allegations were not
The decree is affirmed at the cost of the appellant
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