Silk v. Phillips Petroleum Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “an action for rescission based on fraud must necessarily fail” if the underlying fraud is not proven
• \The mere fact that fraud is claimed will not justify the submission of that issue unless facts are produced from which an irresistible deduction of fraud reasonably arises.\
• plaintiff failed to state fraud claim where there was no evidence defendant made representations about a written agreement’s contents when presented for signature
• “The mere fact that fraud is claimed will not justify the submission of that issue unless facts are produced from which an irresistible deduction of fraud reasonably arises.”
• “[S]ilence as to a material fact is not necessarily, 9 as a matter of law, equivalent to a false representation; there must have been an obligation to speak.”
• “[T]here must have been an obligation to speak.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).