Renaissance Leasing, LLC v. Vermeer Manufacturing Co.

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 defendant’s attempts to perform consistent with its statements undermined the plaintiffs allegation that the defendant never intended to keep its promise
• noting that corporate entities are \distinct legal entit[ies] with the right to . . . sue and be sued\
• listing elements of fraudulent misrepresentation, including a false representation, and “the speaker’s knowledge of [that representation’s] falsity or ignorance of its truth”
• characterizing reliance in fraudulent misrepresentation as a question of “whether a party has justifiably relied on a misrepresentation”
• requiring “the hearer [to] justifiably rel[y] on the information” for negligent misrepresentation (citation omitted)
• “The only rights or interests an assignee acquires are those that the assignor had at the time the assignment was made.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).