Spence v. Three Rivers Builders & Masonry Supply, Inc.

Plaintiff owned several cottages in a, lakeside resort area, one of which was built from cinder blocks manufactured and sold for building-purposes by the defendant. A few months after the cottage was built many of the blocks started to crack, chip and, also, to pit and explode into a popping series of minute craters, followed by numerous flakings and powdery deposits and exuding unsightly travelling- red and yellow stains known as “bleeding.” These strange phenomena occurred and were apparent both inside and outside the cottage, the blocks forming most of the interior wall surface. Some…