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• Title: Stoneman v. Fox Film Corporation
• Author : Supreme Court of Minnesota
• Release Date : January 06, 1936
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 69 KB

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RUGG, Chief Justice. This is an action of tort for deceit. It was submitted to the jury upon three counts of the declaration which were not for the same cause of action. It was alleged in those counts in substance that in October, 1928, the defendant through its duly authorized agents represented to the plaintiff that it was interested in and controlled the Fox Northeastern Playhouses, Inc., and the Fox Metropolitan Playhouses, Inc., two corporations then recently formed, and was desirous of acquiring in the name of these corporations the leaseholds or fees in such moving picture theatres in New England as the plaintiff might be able to procure; that the defendant solicited and induced the plaintiff to give his time, services, and the benefit of his knowledge and experience toward the acquisition of such leaseholds and fees by falsely representing to the plaintiff that these two corporations were possessed of large cash assets and that each of them had been financed to the extent of twenty millions of dollars through bond issues which had been underwritten by a large and responsible banking house; that these representations were false as the defendant well knew; that the plaintiff, believing these representations to be true and relying on them, was induced to give his time, services and experience toward the acquisition of such leaseholds and fees, and procured certain contracts and agreements to be entered into for the acquisition by these two corporations of leases of several specified theatres; that by reason of the falsity of these representations the two corporations refused, failed and neglected to carry out such contracts and agreements; and that the fair value of the services of the plaintiff thus rendered was a stated amount as to separate transactions. The allegations set forth in the three counts submitted to the jury differ only in that they (1) relate to contracts with different corporations owning theatres in New England and (2) specify variation in the value of services rendered by the plaintiff. The defendant pleaded in its answer a general denial and among other defences that the defendant had no interest in the stock or property of the two corporations or in the theatre properties to be acquired by them and that the representations, if made, were outside the real or apparent authority of any officer, director, agent or attorney in fact of the defendant. Subject to the defendants exceptions, the trial Judge denied motions by it for a directed verdict in its favor on each count. A verdict was returned in favor of the plaintiff for a substantial amount on each of the three counts.

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