[357]. See Graham v. Peale, (C. C. A.) 173 Fed. 9 (delay in asserting claim); Spreckels v. Gorrill, 152 Cal. 383; Barron Estate Co. v. Woodruff Co., 163 Cal. 561 (preparations for building); Williams Crusher & Pulverizer Co. v. Lyth Tile Co., 150 N. Y. Suppl. 6 (expensive investigation preliminary to contract not made).
[358]. “But there is one thing which intervenes between the injuria and the damnum and that is the plaintiff’s action which results in damage. It is clear that a misrepresentation cannot of itself directly produce damage. It requires a means of conveyance, and that is the action which it produces, and which results in damage.”
“... It is the action of the plaintiff, and not the damage, which must be materially induced by the misrepresentation.”
“The fallacy is in regarding the damage, and the action resulting in damage, as the same thing.” Moncrieff, Law of Fraud and Misrepresentation, 187.
[359]. Statement abridged and arguments omitted.
[360]. Reaffirmed in Sigafus v. Porter, 179 U. S. 116. The authorities on each side of this controverted question are collected in a note to George v. Hesse, (100 Tex. 44) 8 L. R. A. N. S. 804. For later cases, see: Harris v. Neil, 144 Ga. 519 (accord); Trayne v. Boardman, 207 Mass. 581; Crawford v. Armacost, 85 Wash. 622 (contra).
[361]. Statement abridged; arguments omitted; also part of opinion.
[362]. Henderson v. Henshall, (C. C. A.) 54 Fed. 320; Tooker v. Alston, 159 Fed. 599; Jordan v. Pickett, 78 Ala. 331; Dingle v. Trask, 7 Col. App. 16; Carondelet Iron Works v. Moore, 78 Ill. 65; Jones v. Foster, 175 Ill. 459; Press v. Hair, 133 Ill. App. 528; Anderson Foundry v. Myers, 15 Ind. App. 385; Moore v. Turbeville, 2 Bibb, 602; Weaver v. Shriver, 79 Md. 530; Silver v. Frazier, 3 All. 382; Parker v. Moulton, 114 Mass. 99; Poland v. Brownell, 131 Mass. 138; Thompson v. Pentecost, 206 Mass. 505; Anderson v. McPike, 86 Mo. 293; Brown v. Kansas City R. Co., 187 Mo. App. 104; Morrill v. Madden, 35 Minn. 493; Grindrod v. Anglo-American Bond Co., 34 Mont. 169; Power v. Turner, 37 Mont. 521; Osborne v. Missouri R. Co., 71 Neb. 180; Saunders v. Hatterman, 2 Ired. 32; Mulholland v. Washington Match Co., 35 Wash. 315; Mosher v. Post, 89 Wis. 602; Farr v. Peterson, 91 Wis. 182; Kaiser v. Nummerdor, 120 Wis. 234; Jacobsen v. Whitely, 138 Wis. 434 Accord.
But see Wilson v. Higbee, 62 Fed. 723; King v. Livingston Mfg. Co., 180 Ala. 118; Mason v. Thornton, 74 Ark. 46; Linington v. Strong, 107 Ill. 295; Robinson v. Reinhart, 137 Ind. 674; Hanks v. McKee, 2 Litt. 227; Bowen v. Carter, 124 Mass. 426; Arnold v. Teele, 182 Mass. 1; Light v. Jacobs, 183 Mass. 206; Bachman v. Travelers Ins. Co., (N. H.) 97 Atl. 223; Fox v. Duffy, 95 App. Div. 202.
“The doctrine ... is not to be extended. It relates merely to seller’s talk.” Sheldon, J., in Townsend v. Niles, 210 Mass. 524, 531.