Legal Opinion
Fliss v. Reliable Construction & Realty Co.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided February 12, 1943No. 24PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAYTON, Associate Judge.
Plaintiffs sued in the trial court to recover $225 representing the estimated cost of repairing the basement of a home they had purchased from defendant. Their claim was that the basement had become flooded due to defective construction and failure to waterproof the walls. The substance of the testimony was that plaintiffs had bought the home sometime in December, 1940 and had occupied it m the early part of January, 1941; that after living there about a month and a half the basement became flooded as the result of a rain storm and that this happened on various…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Gunning v. CooleySupreme Court of the United States · 1930
- Ewing v. GoodeU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern Ohio · 1897
- Kellogg Bridge Co. v. HamiltonSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Capital Apartment Corp. v. VassosCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1933
3Cited by3 opinions
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- Lehman v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea CompanyDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1957
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