Persson v. Smart Inventions, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the employer liable when one of its directors fraudulently concealed 27 information during contract negotiations
• holding “[t]he rights and obligations of partnership cannot exist contemporaneously 5 || with the rights and obligations of shareholders in a corporation.”
• “The existence of a confidential relationship generating a fiduciary duty is a question of fact . . . .” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “[A] private corporation is generally liable 14 under the doctrine of respondeat superior for torts of its agents or employees committed while they 15 are acting within the scope of their employment.”
• “We review first 15 the basic principles of fiduciary and confidential relations. … Both relationships give rise 16 to a fiduciary duty, that is, a duty to act with the utmost good faith for the benefit of the 17 other party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).