Pacific Northwest Life Insurance Co. v. Turnbull

This case concerns the purchase and sale of real property later found unsuitable for commercial development because of its prior use as a garbage dump.

The property was sold September 1980 by a land sale contract for the agreed sum of $385,000. In Pacific Northwest Life Insurance Company's suit for damages initiated 3 years later, the trial court ruled that the sellers, Roger L. Turnbull and Ronald Turnbull and their respective wives, had fraudulently concealed from and misrepresented the condition of the property to the purchasers, Ronald L. Smith and Pacific Northwest Life Insurance Co.…