Conklin v. Hurley

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• recognizing a distinction between modern home-buying practices and traditional real estate sales of land, and concluding that land with a defective seawall was “essentially an empty lot” that did not carry an implied warranty
• recognizing a distinction between modern home-buying practices and traditional real estate sales of land, and concluding that land with a defective seawall was “essentially an empty lot” that did not carry an implied warranty
• recognizing a distinction between modern home-buying practices and traditional real estate sales of land, and concluding that land with a defective seawall was “essentially an empty lot” that did not carry an implied warranty
• documenting a trend beginning in the late 1960s and extending through the early 1980s whereby builder-vendors were held liable to immediate purchasers under an implied warranty of habitability
• purchasers not entitled to recover against developer on theory of implied warranty of fitness covering collapsed seawall abutting their lots
• doctrine of implied warranty inapplicable to sale of land; purchasers of unimproved realty more reasonably expected to inspect property knowledgeably before purchase and to be able to bargain for express warranty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).