Barnes v. Rakow

Plaintiff, Elmer P. Barnes, hired defendants, John Mamul and Thomas Popke, individually and doing business as Jens K. Doe Survey Service, to make surveys of three different three-acre tracts contained in a larger parcel of realty owned by plaintiff. Plaintiff subsequently brought this action against defendants, among others, alleging defendants had been negligent in failing to discover and inform plaintiff during the course of their work that the master survey prepared by other surveyors overstated the total acreage contained in the larger parcel. Defendants’ motion for summary judgment was…