Prize Steak Products, Inc. v. Bally's Tom Foolery, Inc., F/k/a Barnaby's Family Inns, Inc.

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• franchisor’s promise to food supplier to pay future debts of franchisees if franchisees defaulted held void under Wisconsin Statute of Frauds
• “Mann holds the statute of frauds applicable so long as ‘the promise is in fact one to answer for the debt and default of another . . . .’” (quoting Mann, 19 Wis. 2d at 462)
• “The promisor’s motive or purpose in making the promise does not in and of itself take the promise outside of the statute of frauds, but is merely evidence used to determine if in fact the promise was intended to create a primary obligation.”

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