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- Title: Soules v. General Motors Corp.
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 21, 1980
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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Plaintiff, James L. Soules, brought this action for damages in the circuit court of Macon County against defendant, General Motors Corporation. Plaintiff's complaint contained two counts, one based on fraudulent misrepresentation and the other based on negligent misrepresentation. The circuit court granted defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint, but the appellate court, in a two-to-one decision, reversed, and remanded the cause. (71 Ill. App.3d 23.) We granted defendant's petition for leave to appeal. The pertinent facts alleged in plaintiff's complaint, accepted as true when ruling upon a motion to dismiss (Acorn Auto Driving School, Inc. v. Board of Education (1963), 27 Ill.2d 93, 96), and those contained in exhibits attached thereto, which constitute part of the complaint (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 110, par. 36; Fowley v. Braden (1954), 4 Ill.2d 355, 358-59), are as follows. In March of 1973, plaintiff, seeking to invest money in a prospective automobile franchise, submitted to defendant an Application for Approval of a Financial Investment in an Oldsmobile Dealership. Plaintiff and Mel Bishop entered into a written agreement on April 16 to form a corporation, Mel Bishop Oldsmobile, Inc., which thereafter acquired an Oldsmobile vehicle franchise from defendant. Plaintiff was made a director and vice-president of the corporation. The franchise agreement entered into on May 14 between the corporation and defendant stated that the corporate franchisee was required to establish and maintain minimum owned net working capital of $134,000. This figure represented the amount of net working capital supplied by investment and earnings. The agreement also recited that the franchisee currently had only $75,000, that it would retain 75% of its net profits in the business until the $134,000 figure was reached, and that it would thereafter maintain at least that amount. The agreement further required the franchisee to submit periodic financial reports to defendant.
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