Ben Farmer Realty Co. v. Woodard

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• explaining that a party “claiming to have been fraudulently induced into entering a ... contract has an election of remedies involving rescission or affirmation of the contract”
• finding that fire damage in an attic was readily discernable where “[t]he house at issue was vacant residential property in obvious dilapidated condition,” and the buyer inspected the house twice and knew she could have accessed and inspected the attic
• buyer who affirmed contract was precluded from recovering for seller’s alleged failure to disclose fire damage and misrepresentation that property was structurally sound
• summary judgment proper in passive concealment case when purchaser of house could have discovered obvious fire damage in attic but failed to inspect it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).