Spencer v. Gabriel

The declaration alleges that the defendant sold and conveyed to the plaintiffs a certain dwelling house which he had built so negligently that in cold weather there was “a substantial and unreasonable risk” that the hot water heating pipes would freeze and burst; that the defendant, as vendor, “knowing of the condition and the risk involved and having reason to believe that the plaintiffs, being unskilled in such matters, would not realize the risk, concealed or failed to disclose the risk in negligent disregard of the rights of the plaintiffs as vendees”; and that in consequence a section of…