Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co. v. Snow

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “[m]ere unfulfilled promissory statements as to what will be done in the future are not actionable as fraud and the injured party’s remedy is to sue for breach of contract.”
• indicating that Sabo rule is applicable where plaintiff presents proof that defendant did not intend to keep its promise; such proof must go beyond the mere fact that defendant did not in fact perform
• “Fraudulent intent not to perform a promise cannot be inferred merely from the fact of nonperformance.... ”
• “Mere unfulfilled promissory statements as to what will be done in the future are not actionable as fraud.”
• “Where a party represents that he intends to act when in actuality he has no such intention, he has made a misrepresentation as to his state of mind and has thus misrepresented a then existing fact.”
• ‘Where a party represents that he intends to act when in actuality he has no such intention, he had made a misrepresentation as to his state of mind and has thus misrepresented a then existing fact.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).