Williams v. Rank & Son Buick, Inc.

At a time when there is so much emphasis on consumer protection, the majority, in effect, revitalizes the old caveat emptor doctrine without specifically mentioning it.

The majority opinion holds that the respondent could not, as a matter of law, have relied on the representation that there was air conditioning in the car since such representation was obviously false.

While the majority concedes that the “statement’s falsity is a question of fact” it states that “this court has decided some such questions as a matter of law.”

The cases cited by the majority to support its conclusion that this…