Wadlington v. CONTINENTAL MEDICAL SERVICES

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that reliance on a false statement is required for a claim of fraud
• noting that in fraud cases the issue of whether a defendant had the intention to perform an act at the time the promise was made is generally a jury question
• “As a general rule, a false statement of fact, to be a ground for fraud, must be of a past or existing fact, not a promise to do something in the future.” (citation and quotation marks omitted)
• “It is well-settled . . . that individual officers and agents of a corporation may be held personally liable for their tortious acts, even if such acts were committed within the scope of their employment as corporate officers.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).