Greenberg v. Hastie

Defendant Earl M. Berendsen and defendants Harry H. Hastie and Hastie Real Estate Inspection and Repair, Inc., a corporation, separately appeal from a judgment rendered, after a nonjury trial, against said defendants and in favor of the plaintiff Pearl Greenberg, in the sum of $2,800, by the terms of which Berendsen is in effect made primarily liable and Hastie and the above corporation jointly made secondarily liable.

The present controversy arises out of the purchase and sale of a four-unit San Francisco apartment house damaged by termites and dry rot. Berendsen, the seller of the property,…