Palmisano v. Townsend

These two appeals from the Washington Superior Court involve two civil actions that were tried together below. In both actions the plaintiffs, who purchased adjoining properties through Rudolph Townsend, a real estate broker and registered land surveyor, alleged that Townsend and Richard Wheeler, a licensed professional engineer, were negligent in assembling the data needed to support a subdivision permit application and in designing a septic disposal system. After trial, judgments were entered in accordance with the jury’s verdicts, which awarded damages against both defendants in each case.…