Dieter Lissmann v. The Hartford Fire Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• distinguishing between “a statement that is false when made and a promise that becomes false only when the promisor later fails to keep his word.”
• “A promise to perform an act in the future is not, in a legal sense, a representation as that term is used in the fraud context” because otherwise, “almost every breach of contract could be claimed to be a fraud”
• distinguishing between a fraudulent statement and breach of a contract
• “Fraud is a wilful [sic] tort.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).