Shapiro v. Sutherland

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that former home owners could be liable for failure to disclose nuisance problem to relocation ser vice, despite lack of contractual privity with purchaser
• “[F]or a defendant to be liable for fraud, he or she must intend that a particular representation (or concealment) be relied upon by a specific person or persons.”
• in an action against the original seller, the intermediate seller remained a necessary party “because of the nature of [the] particular transaction” whereby the intermediate seller retained the plaintiffs money, preventing the plaintiff from obtaining “complete relief’ without it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).