Court Opinion

ID: 9568226
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:01:41.22679+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:24:29.041597
License: Public Domain

Judge SCHWARTZMAN
specially concurring.
I concur in the opinion of the Court. I write only to re-emphasize that the Graefes have no cause of action under the “economic loss” (negligence) rationale of the Duffin case. Under the facts of this case, Brawley Realty maintained no “special relationship” with the Graefes such that the economic loss exception should apply. Nor is being a listing agent of the seller a “unique circumstance” requiring a re-allocation of the risk. Accordingly, Brawley must be held to owe no duty to exercise due care to avoid purely economic loss to the Graefes; and as such, no cause of action in negligence can be maintained.