Landmark Engineering, Inc. v. Cooper

Andrews, Judge.

The Coopers sued Landmark Engineering in 1994, claiming its surveyor negligently prepared a plat of their property in 1984. On the plat, the surveyor signed his name and attached his seal showing him to be a legally registered professional. Landmark moved for summary judgment based on the expiration of the four-year statute of limitation for professional negligence, OCGA § 9-3-25. The trial court denied the motion, finding the plat to be an “instrument under seal” governed by a 20-year limitation period under OCGA § 9-3-23. We granted Landmark’s application for interlocutory…