Albrecht v. Clifford, 436 Mass. 706 (2002)
- Citation
- Albrecht v. Clifford, 436 Mass. 706 (2002)
- Parent Document
- Albrecht v. Clifford, 436 Mass. 706 (2002)
- Jurisdiction
- Massachusetts (state)
- Effective Date
- 2002-05-07
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Full Text
1,083 charsThere are a number of important policy considerations that have led other jurisdictions to adopt the type of implied warranty urged on us in this case. An implied warranty assures that consumers receive that for which they have bargained, an objectively habitable home, see Miller v. Cannon Hill Estates, Ltd., 2 K.B. 113, 120-121 (1931); it protects purchasers from structural defects that are nearly impossible to ascertain by inspection after the home is built, see Christensen v. R.D. Sell Constr. Co., 774 S.W.2d 535, 538 (Mo. Ct. App. 1989); and it imposes the burden of repairing latent defects on the person who has the opportunity to notice, avoid, or correct them during the construction process, see Duncan v. Schuster-Graham Homes, Inc., 194 Colo. 441, 444 (1978). See also Hines v. Thornton, 913 S.W.2d 373, 375 (Mo. Ct. App. 1996) (“The cause of action is directed to structural defects that a builder-vendor has the opportunity to observe but fails to correct; defects that, through the construction process, become latent and not subject to discovery by inspection”).