Sinclair v. Sullivan Chevrolet 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 only “fraud or material misrepresentation” relating “to an existing or past event, not to a promise or prognostication concerning a future happening,” will estop a party from asserting the statute of frauds as a defense
• stating that a misrepresentation, to be actionable, “must generally relate to an existing or past event, not to a promise or prognostication concerning a future happening”
• stating that a misrepresentation, to be actionable, “must generally relate to an existing or past event, not to a promise or prognostication concerning a future happening”
• “To be actionable, a false representation must generally relate to an existing or past event, not to a promise or prognostication concerning a future happening … .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).