Knight v. Gaultney (23 Ill. App. 376, 1887)

Wilkin, P. J.

This is an action on the case. The declaration avers that the defendants conspiring and confederating together with intent to wrong and injure the plaintiff, who was at the time old and in ill health, by false representations, by over-persuasion, and by preventing her from consulting and advising with friends, induced her to sell and deliver to the defendant, Gaultney, a stock of general merchandise then owned by her and worth §2,000, for a sum much less than the real value of the same. The last count also avers that the defendant Gaultney, agreed, in consideration of the sale and delivery of said goods, to pay all her then outstanding debts, and that he has not done so. The only averment as to the false representation of facts in any count of the declaration is that defendants