Allstate Insurance v. Furgerson

OPINION

Between December 1974 and March 1975, Phillip Angst contracted with respondent Edd Furgerson, a local builder, to construct a home on Angst’s property in Carson City. The Angsts moved into their new home on August 26, 1975. Over the next two months, Furgerson returned to complete “little piddly things” that still needed work.

During the summer of 1976 and early 1977, Angst noticed some cracks in the sheetrock in several rooms. He initially attributed the cracks to “settling,” but became concerned when they began to widen in 1979 and 1980.

Furgerson examined the house in August 1982, and…