CHILDS, TRUSTEE IN BANKRUPTCY,
v.
EMPIRE TRUST CO.

U.S. | 1932-05-16
No. 854
286 U.S. 554 Supreme Court of the United States (1932) Negative Treatment
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    …ales available to a court, but he has suffered a wrong; he has lost his chance to bargain with the facts before him. That is the evil against which the statute is directed.” United States v. Rowe, 56 F. 2d 747, 749 (2d Cir. 1932), certiorari denied, 286 U.S. 554, 52 S.Ct. 579, 76 L.Ed. 1289. Here the fraud consisted in Yonan’s holding himself out to be a loyal employee, acting in Zenith's best interests, but actually not giving his honest and faithful services, to Zenith’s real detriment. No refuge can be…
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    …he sense of the mail fraud statute in the context of this case. We have already declined, in the area of private decision making, to follow the letter of Judge Learned Hand’s dictum in United States v. Rowe, 56 F. 2d 747, 749 (2 Cir.), cert. denied, 286 U.S. 554, 52 S.Ct. 579, 76 L.Ed. 1289 (1932), that “false representations, in the context of a commercial transaction, are per se fraudulent despite the absence of any proof of actual injury to any customer.” United States v. Regent Office Supply Co., supra,…

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