Aschoff v. Mobil Oil Corp.

DUNN, Chief Justice.

This is an action seeking actual and exemplary damages for false and fraudulent representations inducing the execution of a contract and lease of a newly-constructed service station. Plaintiff alleged that agents of defendant represented: (1) that the station would do a certain amount of business for a one-year period from May 1, 1972, and that plaintiff would make a profit of $10,982.28 in addition to earning $9,000 1 for his own labor; (2) that a motel would be constructed and in operation next to the station by the fall of 1972; and (3) that the station would be ready…