Colonial Ford Truck Sales, Inc. v. Schneider

How courts have described this case

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• when a promisor makes a promise “intending not to perform, his promise is a misrepresentation of present fact, and if made to induce the promisee to act to his detriment, is actionable as an actual fraud”
• in Virginia, where a party “makes [a] promise, intending not to perform, his promise is a misrepresentation of present fact, and if made to induce the promisee to act to his detriment, is actionable as an actual fraud.”
• “[T]he promisor’s intention – his state of mind – is 33 a matter of fact” and a misrepresentation about that intention “if made to induce the promisee to act to his detriment, is actionable as an actual fraud.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).