Hines v. LeBar

GRIMES, Judge.

Appellants were concerned over termites. As a condition of the purchase of their home, they required the seller to furnish them with a “current termite inspection report from a licensed exterminating company showing the premises to be free of visible evidence of active infestation of subterranean or drywood termites.” At closing, they obtained from the seller an assignment of a contract for subterranean termite control. Notwithstanding, about three months after the purchase, their parquet floors were infested with subterranean termites. Appellants sued the pest control inspector…