Weatherall Aluminum Products Co. v. Scott

In Weatherall Aluminum Products Co. v. Scott (1977) 71 Cal.App.3d 245, the Court held that a contract entered into at the buyer's home fell within the purview of the statute even though the buyer there had initiated negotiations by telephoning the seller and expressing an interest in his product. The Court explained in Weatherall that the emphasis of the statute was on the place at which the contract was made and not on whether contact was initiated by the buyer or the seller. Having arrived, unbidden, at plaintiff's residence on the very day his home burned down, a time at which plaintiff was undoubtedly under serious emotional stress, defendant cannot escape the strictures of the statute merely because its agents did not also knock on other doors on the block.