Barnhouse v. City of Pinole

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• developer’s failure to disclose to initial purchaser of house in subdivision existence of seeps, springs, and slides near the property was actionable
• “[I]t would be anomalous if liability for damages resulting from fraudulent concealment were to vanish simply because of the fortuitous event of an intervening resale.”
• subsequent purchaser could sue developer for fraudulent concealment of failure to correct soil subsidence problems in accordance with the approved correction plan, despite the absence of contract privity
• subsequent purchaser could sue developer for fraudulent concealment of failure to correct soil subsidence problems in accordance with the approved correction plan, despite the absence of contract privity
• the sale of a home to a subsequent purchaser was certainly foreseeable
• the sale of a home to a subsequent purchaser was certainly foreseeable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).