Gulf City Body & Trailer Works, Inc. v. PHOENIX PROP. TRUST, INC.

Did the trial court err in granting summary judgment to defendants, Phoenix Properties Trust, Inc., Paul Kirkland, W. Aikens, Charles Shaw, Ron Morrow, and Cooper and Company, Inc., on the claims of Gulf City Body Trailer Works, Inc. ("Gulf City") for damages for fraudulent misrepresentation1 and for specific performance of a contract to purchase real property?

Kirkland, a Mobile County employee, contacted Morrow, the managing broker of Cooper and Company, to discuss a site that Mobile County might be willing to purchase for a new jail. Morrow contacted Shaw, another real estate broker, who…