Jarrard v. Seifert

Johnson, J. *

Ernest Jarrard, a real estate developer, and Paul Putnam, a contractor, formed a joint venture to construct nine fourplexes on property located at 44th Street and Bridgeport Way in Pierce County. It was a condominium-type arrangement with each fourplex to be sold with the land beneath it only, and a common, undivided interest in the surrounding property. In the spring of 1973, Mr. Jarrard employed the defendants, Seifert, Forbes & Berry, an architectural, engineering, and land survey firm, to draw up a site plan, place the fourplexes on the limited-size property, lay out the…