Watts v. Monarch Builders, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that in the absence of fraud, the construction of a clear and unambiguous contract is a matter of law
• finding absent allegations purchasers were hindered in their investigation of the property or were told specific facts regarding metes and bounds, no fraudulent misrepresentation could be established
• no evidence of fraud where buyers relied on seller's agent’s representation about property lines instead of conducting their own investigation
• no evidence of fraud where buyers relied on seller's agent's representation about property lines instead of conducting their own investigation
• in denying buyers’ claim for fraud against sellers, court held buyers “chose to shut their eyes” by failing to examine property as closely as they should have and failing to request a metes and bounds description of the property
• wherein the supreme court affirmed the grant of summary judgment in a fraud case involving the sale of real property, noting that it was not a case of fraudulent misrepresentation but was \a case where two purchasers chose to shut their eyes\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).