Cousineau v. Walker

How courts have described this case

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• holding that material misrepresentation, either innocent, negligent, or fraudulent, is adequate ground for avoiding contract
• holding that material misrepresentation, either innocent, negligent, or fraudulent, is adequate ground for avoiding contract
• holding that seller’s misstatements about facts relevant to purchaser’s intended commercial use were likely to induce reasonable buyer to purchase property
• holding that fraudulent or material misrepresentation may be grounds for voiding contract
• recognizing innocent misrepresentation as a cause of action in real estate transactions
• analogizing to the UCC's treatment of caveat emptor in a real property contract dispute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).