Kelley v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on KEN-MAR CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC. v. Bowen · Mallen v. Mallen · 168 Ga. App. 218 - Jeff Goolsby Homes Corp. v. Smith · ALDWORTH CO., INC. v. England · 195 Ga. App. 529 - Myers v. Myers
Most-quoted passages
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“[i]n order to recover for fraud, a plaintiff must prove that actual damages, not simply nominal damages, flowed from the fraud alleged. The expression “actual damages” is not necessarily limited to pecuniary loss, or loss of ability to earn money. General damages are those which the law presumes to flow from any tortious act, and they may be awarded on a fraud claim. Wounding a man’s feelings is as much actual damage as breaking his limbs. Injury to reputation is a personal injury, and personal injury damages can be recovered in a fraud action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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