MISREPRESENTATION. The state ment made by a party to a contract that a thing relating to it is in fact in a particular way, when be knows it is not so.
2. The misrepresentation must be both false and fraudulent in order to make the party making it responsible to the other for damages. 3 Conn. 413 ; 10 Mass. 197 ; 1 Const. So. C. 328, 475 ; Metc. Yelv. 21 a n. 1 ; Peake, Cas. 115 ; 3 Campb. 154; Mar'shall, Ins. b. 1, c. 10, s. 1. And see 5 Maule & S. 380 ; 12 East, 638 ; 3 Bos. & P. 370. Misre presentation RS to a material part of the con sideration will avoid an executory contract. 1 Phillips, Ins. N 630, 675.
A misrepresentation, to constitute fraud, must be contrary to fact ; the party making it must know it to be so, 2 Kent, Comm. 471; 1 Story, Eq. Jur. 142 ; 4 Price, 135 ; 3 Conn. 597 ; 22 Me. 511 ; 7 Gratt. Va. 64, 239 ; Ga,. 458; 5 Johns. Ch. N. Y. 182 ; 6 Paige, Ch. N. Y. 197; 1 Stor. C. C. 172 ; 1 Woodb.
& M. C. C. 342 ; excluding cases of inere
take, 5 Q. B. 804 ; 9 id. 197 ; 10 Mees. & W.
147 ; 11 id. 401 ; 14 id. 651 ; 7 Cranch, 69 ; 13 How. 211 ; 8 Johns. N. Y. 25; 7 Wend, N. Y. 10; 11 id. 375 ; 1 Mete. Mass. 1 ; 27 Me. 309; 7 Vt. 67, 79; 6 N. H. 99 ; and in cluding cases where he falsely asserts a per sonal knowledge, 18 Pick. Mass. 96 . 1 Mete. Mass. 193 ; 3 id. 469 ; 6 id. 245 ; 27 'Me. 309; 16 Wend. N. Y. 646 ; 16 Ala. 785 ; 1 Bibb, Ky. 244 ; 4 B. Monr. Ky. 601 ; 3 Crunch, 281, and one which gave rise to the contracting of tho other party. Rawle, Cas. 3d ed. 622 . 14 N, II. 331 ; 1 Woodb. & M. C. C. 90, 342; 2 id, 298 ; 2 Strobh. Eq. So. C. 14 ; 2 Bibb, Ky 474 ; 8 B. Monr. Ky. 23 ; 4 How. Miss. 435. 6 id. 311; 25 Miss. 167 ; 3 Cranch, 282 ; Yerg. Tenn. 178 ; 19 Ga. 448 ; 5 Blackf. Ind. 18. See 12 Me. 262 ; 13 Pet. 26 ; 23 Wend. N. Y. 260 ; 7 Barb. N. Y. 65.