Court Opinion

ID: 9611406
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 03:56:28.288426+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:16:56.422607
License: Public Domain

CONCURRING OPINION OF
KIDWELL, J.
I concur in the foregoing opinion, but consider it desirable to say something more with respect to the rule that fraud may not be predicated upon unfulfilled predictions. I do not understand the opinion to deny that a representation by a self-proclaimed soothsayer that he or she has psychic powers which enable the future to be foretold might be an actionable representation if made with knowledge of its falsity, although the prediction of the soothsayer might not in itself be actionable. That question is not before us in this case, however, in the absence of any evidence that appellee was aware that he lacked power to foretell appellant’s future.