Twin Coach Company v. Chance Vought Aircraft, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding a plaintiff asserting fraud must show “[t]he deceiver [] ma[d]e a false representation of a material fact to the victim[.]” (emphasis added)
• declining to resolve distinction between direct and consequential damages on a challenge to the pleadings— a task this Court found “virtually impossible” to do “as a matter of law”
• defining special damages as “those which are the actual, but not the necessary, result of the injury complained of, and which in fact follow it as a natural and proximate consequence in the particular case, that is, by reason of special circumstances or conditions’
• “To begin with, in every action of fraud there must be a deceiver and his victim. (1) The deceiver must make a false representation of a material fact to the victim. (2

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).