Love v. Keith

GREENE, Judge.

The plaintiffs, Steven R. and Bonnie B. Love, received a jury verdict against defendants E. Harold and Joyce G. Keith in an action under the Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act, N.C.G.S. Sec. 75-1 et seq. (1988). Defendants appeal.

This action arose from a housing transaction. The evidence tends to show the defendants built a house, and the plaintiffs contracted to purchase it. In this contract the defendants agreed, among other things, “to correct water leakage around the front door sill and replace several water damaged boards of the hardwood floor in foyer.”

Prior to…