Gilmore v. Bell

How courts have described this case

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• confidential relationship existed between home builder and home purchaser where the parties were “trusted friends, college fraternity brothers” and later business associates
• “[A]ll the law requires is a showing of a relationship which justifies the reposing of confidence by one party in another.”
• “While an independent contractor relationship does not necessarily give rise to a fiduciary relationship, it does not preclude a fiduciary relationship either.”
• “The existence of a confidential relationship depends heavily upon the circumstances of each case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).