Van Camp v. Bradford

Bradford (defendant) listed her house for sale immediately after a tenant's daughter was brutally raped there and another rape occurred nearby with the rapist still at large; when buyer Van Camp (plaintiff), also a single mother of a teenage daughter, asked at the walk-through why there were bars on the basement windows, Bradford said only that there'd been a break-in 16 years earlier and there was currently no problem, advising Van Camp to keep the bars despite Van Camp's stated cosmetic preference to remove them. Van Camp learned of the rapes from a neighbor shortly after closing, and after her house was later burglarized and she received threatening calls, sued Bradford and her agent (defendants), who moved for summary judgment.