Patrick v. Harding

How courts have described this case

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• holding scienter established where defendant “recklessly made false representations either as to [his] knowledge of- the facts or the facts themselves”
• lawyer's failure to investigate misrepresentation of mixed question of fact and law no bar to client's recovery under fraud claim
• lawyer’s failure to investigate misrepresentation of mixed question of fact and law no bar to client’s recovery under fraud claim
• rescission appropriate when tenant induced to enter lease for use of premises for garbage conversion based upon false representation that premises were in unrestricted zone
• “[A] pure opinion of law ... may not, except in unusual circumstances, base an action in tort....”
• “All parts of an agreement are to be reconciled, if possible, in order to avoid inconsistency.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).