Boivin v. Jones & Vining, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• upholding a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff-employee for misrepresentation claim the basis of which was defendant-employer's promise of continued employment made with knowledge that such continued employment was likely unfeasible
• breaching of an oral promise of employment not enough under Tuttle
• reversing award of punitive damages where defendant employer's conduct in making a promise of employment with no intention of fulfilling the promise, although justifying compensatory damages based upon fraud, was not sufficiently outrageous that malice would be implied
• employee can rely on promise of continued employment
• fraudulent misrepresentations did not constitute outrageous conduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).