Nguyen v. Tran

1PATRICIA RIVET MURRAY, Judge.

Defendant, Mrs. Ngot Tran, appeals the judgment of the trial court, which found her liable for negligent misrepresentation and awarded damages to the plaintiffs, Mrs. Tuat Nguyen and Mrs. Chi Nguyen. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

Plaintiffs sued Mrs. Tran seeking rescission of an oral contract confected in April, 1998, whereby plaintiffs purportedly purchased from Mrs. Tran a business known as “Seafood City.” In their petition, plaintiffs alleged that as a result of Mrs. Tran’s fraudulent misrepresentation to them that she owned the business and other…