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· 11/18/1988

State v. Custom Pools

Citations

  • 556 A.2d 72
  • 150 Vt. 533
  • 1988 Vt. LEXIS 232

How courts have described this case

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

  • allowing consumer’s action against finance company that assisted a pool sales company in fraudulently obtaining mortgage deeds on consumers’ homes
  • interpreting “use” in Vermont’s analogous consumer protection act as “‘[t]o make use of, to convert to one’s service, to avail one’s self of, to employ’”
  • this Court’s primary objective in interpreting the VCFA is to give meaning and effect to its underlying legislative purpose
  • if Legislature intended that Attorney General cannot sue a finance company that benefitted from the consumer fraud of a seller, “it could have done so with clear language to that effect”

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Judges: Dooley, Mahady, Barney, Keyser, Springer

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