STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE



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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

     , SS. SUPERIOR COURT

     

     

v.

     

PLAINTIFF’S REQUESTED JURY INSTRUCTIONS

NOW COMES the Plaintiff,       ("     "), by his attorneys,      , and request the Court to give to the jury the following Requested Jury Instructions.

JURY INSTRUCTION NO.

Unfair and Deceptive Business Practices by      – RSA 358-A

New Hampshire's Unfair and Deceptive Business Practices law makes it unlawful for any person to use any unfair method of competition or any unfair or deceptive act or practice in the conduct of any trade or commerce within this state. RSA 358-A:2.

A practice is "unfair" if (1) it is within some legal or other established concept of unfairness, (2) it is immoral, unethical, oppressive, or unscrupulous, or (3) it causes substantial injury to consumers.

You will be asked to determine some of the factors that go into the determination of whether       violated New Hampshire's unfair and deceptive business practices law. Those factors include: (a) whether       failure to return the       paid to him was unfair, immoral, unethical, oppressive, or unscrupulous; (b) whether       received any financial benefit at       expense that was unfair, immoral, unethical, oppressive, or unscrupulous; (c) whether       conduct toward      in its attempts to retain any such financial benefit was unfair, immoral, unethical, oppressive, or unscrupulous; or (d) whether       employed an individual who acted as a real estate broker in New Hampshire who did not have the required real estate license making       representation of       unfair or deceptive.

If you find that       acts or practices violated these provisions, you shall award       as much as three times, but not less than two times, the amount of his actual damages.

RSA 358-A: 2, X; Robert J. Kowalski v. Cedars of Portsmouth Condominium Ass'n, 146 N.H. 130, 135 (2001); Chroniak v. Golden Inv. Corp., 983 F.2d 1140, 1145-1146 (1st Cir. 1993)(construing New Hampshire law).

JURY INSTRUCTION NO. 2

Condition Precedent

The plaintiff claims that he was not obligated to perform his promises under the contract, unless a certain event happened. In this case, that event was       meeting the contingencies in the lease agreement so that the lease became binding and enforceable.

You must determine whether the parties had agreed, as a part of their contract, that the plaintiff would not have to perform his obligations until that event happened.

If you find that the event did happen, then the plaintiff will be responsible for not performing his promises under the contract. If you find that the event did not happen, then the plaintiff will be excused from performing his promises under the contract.

Sources

Fox v. Walker, 62 N.H. 419, 421 (1882); Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 224 (1981). See generally Holden Engineering and Surveying, Inc. v. Pembroke Road Realty Trust, 137 N.H. 393, 628 A.2d 260 (1993) (discussing doctrine of conditions precedent); In re Estate of Kelly, 130 N.H. 773, 781, 547 A.2d 284, 289 (1988).

Dated: June ____, 2006

Respectfully submitted,

     

By      attorneys,

McLANE, GRAF, RAULERSON & MIDDLETON

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION

Date:       By: ______________________________________

Scott H. Harris, Esquire

900 Elm Street, P.O. Box 326

Manchester, NH 03105-0326

Telephone: (603) 625-6464

Certificate of Service

I hereby certify that on      day of      ,      I served the foregoing Proposed Jury Instructions to counsel of record, by giving him/her in hand.

_____________________________________

Scott H. Harris

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