Collins v. Burns

YATES, Judge.

Larry Collins sued Bruce Burns, doing business as Hanceville Insulation Company, alleging that Burns had failed to insulate Collins’s office building as promised, thereby breaching their agreement and causing Collins to lose money that he had paid to Burns for materials and labor, as well as the money that he would have saved in energy costs had the office been properly insulated. He also alleged that Burns had made fraudulent misrepresentations to him and that he had relied upon those misrepresentations to his detriment. The case was tried before a jury; at the close of…