Vendor and purchaser
Vendor and purchaser
- 1996
- Estates Gazette Case Summaries [1996] EGCS 192 (7/12/96) .
"Smith v Drumm and others" QBD 19 November 1996. Purchasers of a flat unfit for human habitation by statute, only entitled to damages for discomfort. Completion taking place before pre-contractual inquiries was not a serious breach as the plaintiffs would still have entered into the contract.
DAMAGES
DEFECTIVE PREMISES ACT 1972
MISREPRESENTATION
PRE-CONTRACTUAL INQUIRIES
SMITH V DRUMM AND OTHERS
UNFIT HOUSES
"Smith v Drumm and others" QBD 19 November 1996. Purchasers of a flat unfit for human habitation by statute, only entitled to damages for discomfort. Completion taking place before pre-contractual inquiries was not a serious breach as the plaintiffs would still have entered into the contract.
DAMAGES
DEFECTIVE PREMISES ACT 1972
MISREPRESENTATION
PRE-CONTRACTUAL INQUIRIES
SMITH V DRUMM AND OTHERS
UNFIT HOUSES