Montello v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “The trial court made extensive findings of fact indicating that [Mon-tello] was fraudulently induced to lease the premises by [Smith’s] knowingly false representations and promises that her lease was for exclusive restaurant rights in the entire new ‘Chain Bridge Shopper’s Village Mall.’ Despite express and implied assurances that he was ready to begin the mall and to complete the work by December, 1987, [Smith] had in fact neither the ability, nor the intent, to undertake the mall project and had actually abandoned all plans for such commercial development long before his first meeting with [Montello], [Smith] never secured or even applied for permits necessary to complete his ‘flagship mall,’ and had obtained only a single six month permit to start work on the six units constituting ‘phase one.’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Montello v. Smith