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Security Federal Savings & Loan Association of Nashville v. Riviera, Ltd.

856 S.W.2d 709 (1992)

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Security Federal Savings & Loan Association of Nashville v. Riviera, Ltd.

Tennessee Court of Appeals
856 S.W.2d 709 (1992)

Facts

Tom Robinson (plaintiff) was a businessman. Mickey Ridings (defendant), a lawyer and financial advisor, advised Robinson in business and personal financial matters. Ridings was a partner of Riviera, Ltd. (Riviera) (defendant), which was selling an apartment building. Ridings told Robinson that the building was worth over $2.5 million and that a buyer could take certain tax benefits associated with the building. There was no evidence to substantiate Ridings’s claims about the building’s value, but Robinson bought the building anyway. Robinson then discovered that Ridings’s claims were false. Ridings claimed that he did not profit from the sale, but the sale discharged a debt that Ridings owed to Riviera and increased the value of Ridings’s interest in Riviera. Robinson argued that Ridings’s fraudulent misrepresentations induced Robinson to buy the building. Ridings argued that because he was not acting as Robinson’s attorney during the transaction, the transaction did not take place within a fiduciary relationship, and therefore there was no reasonable reliance and no fraudulent misrepresentation. The trial court found that there was no fiduciary relationship.

Rule of Law

Issue

Holding and Reasoning (Cantrell, J.)

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