Court Opinion

ID: 9933237
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-09 18:41:47.058368+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:08:34.670006
License: Public Domain

I respectfully dissent insofar as the majority opinion affirms the trial court's summary judgment in favor of Diane Lucas. I agree that Lucas had no affirmative duty to act or to make any disclosures in this case. However, once she undertook to do so, she had an obligation to do so honestly. Further, only Mitchell and the Gauldens were parties to the documents signed at closing. Lucas, therefore, was not entitled to the protection of the exculpatory provisions of the sales contract.
It therefore appears to me that genuine issues of material fact exist as to claims against Lucas and that, accordingly, the trial court erred in entering the summary judgment in her favor.