Court Opinion

ID: 9476619
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 06:00:36.14376+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:45:24.888827
License: Public Domain

BAUER, Chief Judge,
concurring.
I am in agreement with the majority opinion. I believe that Proud would be liable without reference to legal malpractice or negligent misrepresentation. The evidence in this case indicates that he is guilty of fraud or intentional misrepresentation. He was lying when he represented that he had made U.C.C., tax and judgment searches on his brother-in-law’s farm. He intended the misrepresentation to induce Greycas to make a loan to his brother-in-law; Greycas justifiably relied upon the misrepresentation in making the loan and was injured as a result. Under these facts, Proud’s misrepresentation was indefensible.