DUNN CONST. CO. v. Cloney

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the misrepresentation occurred within the contractual relationship because, although it involved repairs, those repairs related back to a duty that arose under contract
• \The fact that the representation was made in order to obtain payment... does not take the fraud outside of the contract relationship.\
• \[T]he determination whether a cause of action sounds in contract or tort depends on the source of the duty violated.\
• “the fact that the representation was made in order to obtain payment . . . does not take the fraud outside of the contract relationship.”
• “[t]he fact that the representation was made in order to obtain payment... does not take the fraud outside of the contract relationship, because the payment obtained was also due under the original terms of the contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).