Hypos for real estate contract breach

  1. Contract to sell Snortacre (the site of a meth lab); structure explodes, burns down before closing because of seller’s meth lab
  2. Merchantable title
  3. Webb contracts to sell Tigeracre to Gust; Tigeracre is owned by George Felinefile; not by Webb.
  4. Webb once owned it in FSA, but before the contract, he sold a springing executory interest in Tigeracre to Gust in FSA to become possessory at such time as the last Bengal tiger now living on Tigeracre dies
  5. Webb has only a L.E.
  6. Zoning ordinance: no educational activities
  7. No violation
  8. Current violation: School: Jazz Sax; buyers purpose is choral singing
  9. Tigeracre is subject to an express affirmative easement permitting Modovolate Aviation, LLC to operate drones from a 100 square foot area on the northwest corner of the property
  10. Tigeracre has a chromium plant on it
  11. German sellers in violation of no foreigners covenant
  12. In contract: “subject to covenant that no heavy metal ever be played on property”
  13. Failure to disclose Orangedusk as neighbors
  14. Orangedusk is playing when buyer inspects
  15. Orangedusk has taken a break from practicing
  16. Homebuilder sells for principal residence
  17. residence; thatched roof (plastic sheeting/big canvas tent) covered by asphalt shingles
  18. original buyer
  19. downstream buyer
  20. Residence; natural gas heating system
  21. 25 years passes
  22. Everyone has moved to combination of solar panels and fuel cells
  23. Claim breach of warranty
  24. Downstream buyer
  25. Residence with “convertible” (retractable canvas roof)
  26. Original buyer
  27. Downstream buyer
  28. Warranty:
  29. Builder deliberately doubles spacing of floor joists, and uses 2/4s instead of 2/8s; sells to sister, who then puts it on market; recovery in NH?
  30. Floor joists properly spaced 2/8s, but carpenters get lazy, just set joists on sill, with no nails or screws, and lay subflooring over them, with no nails or screws
  31. Floor joists property spaced 2/8s, carpenters nail them to sill and to subfloor; neighborhood kids come out in dead of night and pull all the nails