Frick v. City of Salina

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “with a fraudulent inducement claim, the elements of fraud must be established as they relate to an agreement between the parties”
• explaining that when the harm “arises out of the contract” between the parties, meaning the plaintiff suffered an injury through entering into the contract, the harm is properly the subject of a fraudulent inducement claim, not a common-law fraud claim
• to recover for fraud in Texas, “plaintiff must show he was injured because of his reliance on a misrepresentation”
• alleged employee misrepresentations that form basis of fraudulent inducement claim can be deemed to have arisen within scope of employment
• “[L]ost profits are cognizable under Texas law, they are appropriately compensated through consequential damages, not benefit-of-the-bargain damages.”
• “Damages in misappropriation cases can take several forms[,]” including: “the development costs the defendant avoided incurring through misappropriation.” (internal citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).