Wildes v. Pens Unlimited Co.

How courts have described this case

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• affirming award of compensatory damages based on income plaintiff would have earned if he had been employed by defendant consistent with defendant’s false representation to plaintiff about his employment
• affirming award of compensatory damages based on income plaintiff would have earned if he had been employed by defendant consistent with defendant’s false representation to plaintiff about his employment
• claim stated for fraud where company hired employee from another job knowing that position would be eliminated within days
• claim stated for fraud where company hired employee from another job knowing that position would be eliminated within days
• “this Court has said on several occasions that an action for deceit must be based on misrepresentations of past or existing fact and not merely on broken promises for future performance”
• “the proper measure of damages is the plaintiff’s lost bargain”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).