Michael is an avid player of board games and is the founder and president of the League
Question:
Michael is an avid player of board games and is the founder and president of the League of Serious Gamers (LSG) social club. Every year, Eugene travels to the Vietnam Convention of Board Game Players where he mixes with fellow enthusiasts, sees the many displays, and experiences different board games. He usually returns with new or collector board games that he has purchased and which he onsells at cost price to members of the LSG. This year he bought a chess set which, he was told by the German seller, was once owned by Emperor Quang Trung. Michael placed the following entry in the newsletter that was regularly sent to LSG members: Gamers, a special find this time! Emperor Franz Joseph’s chess board and pieces. $10,000 for this piece of history. Peter is a wealthy collector of rare historical pieces. He was in the bedroom of his son Mark, who was a member of the LSG, telling him that he needed to go out and get a job. After delivering his lecture, he noticed the LSG newsletter, which was open in the advertisements section, and saw the entry about the chess set.
Peter knew that the Quang Trung chess set was a much sought-after historical piece. However, he thought that the chess set was in the collection of an American buyer, and in any event, would be worth much more than $10,000. Accordingly, Peter wrote down the phone number in the advertisement, arranged to meet Michael, inspected the chess set, and paid him the money. Peter arranged a conference to which he invited other well-known collectors of historical pieces. However, his moment of triumph was destroyed when a friend of his loudly proclaimed to Peter and the assembled audience:
‘Oh, my dear boy! That’s not the Quang Trung chess set. Where did you get this — some backstreet bazaar?’ The conference ended in a humiliating farce for Peter. Sitting alone after everybody had left, he suddenly suffered a fit of pique, picked up the chess set and flung it against the wall. As a result, the board was cracked and several pieces were badly chipped. Peter now wants to direct his ire against the person he blames for his humiliation — Michael — based on the representations he made about the chess set.
If Peter sue Michale,what would happen?
Data Modeling and Database Design
ISBN: 978-1285085258
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Authors: Narayan S. Umanath, Richard W. Scammel