Wimmer v. Down East Properties, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• reiterating that “in the sale of a new house by a builder-vendor, the law implies [a] warranty] that the house is suitable for habitation” (emphasis added)
• \ln]o satisfactory reason appears for applying a rule of caveat emptor in the sale of new houses by a builder-vendor.\
• “The test is one of reasonableness, not perfection, the standard being, ordinarily, the quality of work that would be done by a worker of average skill and intelligence.”
• “the standard measure of damages for defective performance under a construction contract”
• recovery of amount expended to drill replacement well

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).