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

WAINWRIGHT, Justice.

The present case stems from a dispute over surveying construction work performed on a building in Swepsonville, North Carolina.

Honda Manufacturing hired plaintiff, Associated Industrial Contractors, Inc., to build an addition to Honda’s die cast facility. The addition was planned to be eighty feet wide and one hundred twenty feet long and sit on the west side of the die cast facility. The building plans required a ten ton bridge crane to run from the existing Honda building through the addition on the same runway. To accommodate this crane, the addition had to be perfectly…