Associated Industrial Contractors, Inc. v. Fleming Engineering, Inc.

Because the plaintiff failed to establish the standard of care required to be exercised by a land surveyor, I respectfully dissent.

A land surveyor “does not... undertake to insure the correctness of his findings,” 11 Am. Jur. Proof of Facts 2d 405; rather, a surveyor is only “required to exercise that degree of care which a surveyor or civil engineer of ordinary skill and prudence would exercise under similar circumstances . . . .” Davidson and Jones, Inc. v. County of New Hanover, 41 N.C. App. 661, 668, 255 S.E.2d 580, 585, disc. review denied, 298 N.C. 295, 259 S.E.2d 911 (1979). It is…