San Francisco Real Estate Investors v. J.A. Jones Construction Co.

Plaintiff-appellant seeks damages for costs it incurred to repair a parking deck at a building in Cincinnati it owns which appellees planned and constructed as architect and builder-contractor.

The United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio granted summary judgment for the appellees. 524 F.Supp. 768 (S.D.Ohio 1981). Applying Ohio law, the District Court ruled that since appellant was a subsequent purchaser of the property and improvements in question — not the original vendee — it was not in privity of contract with any of the appellees, and thus could not recover from…