Hanlon v. Thornton

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that purchaser, who failed to make any effort to investigate value of property and existence of adjacent landfill, could not recover on claim of fraudulent misrepresentation with respect to those items
• affirming the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the sellers and holding that, in the absence of a confidential relationship, the purchaser’s failure to exercise any independent effort to determine the true value of the property precluded a showing of justified reliance
• “In a claim for fraudulent concealment, a plaintiff must prove the same five elements of a fraud claim.”
• requiring proof of reliance in cases of fraudulent concealment
• fraudulent concealment requires proof of same elements as fraud

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).