Case Name: Ramona HEIDER and George Heider, her husband, Appellants, v. COOPER BROWN OLDSMOBILE, INC., a Florida corporation, and General Motors Corporation, a foreign corporation, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1982-12-07
Citations: 424 So. 2d 46
Docket Number: Nos. 80-2503, 81-1044
Parties: Ramona HEIDER and George Heider, her husband, Appellants, v. COOPER BROWN OLDSMOBILE, INC., a Florida corporation, and General Motors Corporation, a foreign corporation, Appellees.
Judges: Before NESBITT, BASKIN and FERGUSON, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 424
Pages: 46–47

Head Matter:
Ramona HEIDER and George Heider, her husband, Appellants, v. COOPER BROWN OLDSMOBILE, INC., a Florida corporation, and General Motors Corporation, a foreign corporation, Appellees.
Nos. 80-2503, 81-1044.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Dec. 7, 1982.
Rehearing Denied Jan. 19, 1983.
Stephens, Lynn, Chemay & Klein and Robert Klein and Michael C. Mattson, Miami, for appellants.
Wicker, Smith, Blomqvist, Davant, Tu-tan, O’Hara & McCoy and Richard A. Sherman, Miami, for appellees.
Before NESBITT, BASKIN and FERGUSON, JJ.

Opinion:
BASKIN, Judge.
We affirm the summary judgment as to appellants' claim for breach of an implied warranty of merchantability. With regard to the question of fraud, however, we find that the record contains depositions upon which a jury might conceivably conclude that General Motors' conduct, in partially repairing the automobile purchased by appellant without revealing that it had been damaged, constitutes fraudulent concealment. A genuine issue of material fact remains. Nessim v. DeLoache, 384 So.2d 1341 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980). The summary judgment on the claim alleging fraud is reversed and the cause remanded for trial.
Affirmed in part and reversed in part.