Lawton v. Dracousis

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting negligent misrepresentation claim where no evidence speaker had knowledge of undisclosed facts
• failure to disclose building code violations not actionable where seller did not know or have reason to know of violations
• failure to disclose building code violations not actionable where seller did not know or have reason to know of violations
• broker exercised reasonable care by taking buyer to building inspector’s office and relying on inspector’s erroneous statement that no building code violations existed
• no c. 93A liability where broker informed buyer that there were no building code violations when, in fact, there were, because broker was not aware of such violations
• negligently supplying false information may create liability if there is justifiably reliance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).