Center Building Co. v. City of St. Joseph

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendant would derive an unfair advantage by taking a factual position inconsistent with one taken in an earlier action in which defendant prevailed
• stating that the trial court properly instructed jury that the plaintiff could not recover more than once for the same loss
• noting that issue of whether plaintiff should have known of connection between window rot and defendant’s use of a defective preservative “is a factual determination that necessarily turns upon an evaluation of the evidence”
• damage to home caused by leaking windows installed into existing home not barred by economic loss
• “We have ... recognized that a plaintiff may not ordinarily recover damages for purely economic loss in tort-”
• “We have . . . recognized that a plaintiff may not ordinarily recover damages for purely economic loss in tort . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).