Keystone Fruit Co. v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “a promise of future performance [is] not a representation of existing fact”
• discussing the nine elements of a fraud claim under Washington law
• “Trial court error on jury instructions is not a ground for reversal unless it is prejudicial.”
• “Thus a trial court’s refusal to give a requested instruction is reviewed only for abuse of discretion.”
• considering the standard on a motion for judgment as a matter of law
• (1) representation of an existing fact; (2) materiality; (3) falsity; (4) the speaker’s knowledge of its falsity; (5) intent of the speaker that it should be acted upon by the plaintiff; (6) plaintiff's ignorance of its falsity; (7

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).