Jacobs v. Levin

Plaintiffs sued the defendants for damages alleged to have been sustained by them as a result of the purchase of certain San Francisco residence property. The purchase price of the property was $8,400. At the time that plaintiffs bought the property the living room contained a fireplace which obviously had been used. However, the fireplace contained no chimney or flue which, it developed during the trial, had been sealed up by the defendants many years before. Although the plaintiffs had made a number of inspections of the property before they purchased it they had failed to discover the…