Belisle v. Southdale Realty Company

This is an action for damages for alleged fraud in the inducement to enter into a lease. After the close of all the testimony submitted by the parties, the trial court granted defendant’s motion for a directed verdict. Plaintiffs appeal.

In 1957, plaintiff Harvey E. Belisle, who owned and operated a restaurant in Minneapolis and had considerable experience in the restaurant business, was contacted by one John Palm, a restaurant equipment salesman and acquaintance of his, about what Palm considered to be a good opportunity to open a restaurant in the Southdale Medical Building, then under…