Casperson v. Meech

OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

This appeal concerns the liability of a seller of real property when his purchaser commits acts resulting in the constructive eviction of tenants holding under a lease given to them by the seller.

On or about August 1, 1974, appellant R. H. Casper son, the owner of a building in Fairbanks, Alaska, leased a portion of the premises to Howard and Iris Meech, appel-lees. The leased premises consisted of a kitchen and dining room which were used by the lessees as a restaurant.

*220On September 30, 1974, Casperson executed a purported “bill of sale” of the building to E. Alan…