Estate of Rocks v. McLaughlin Engineering Co.

The owner of land and the operators of a marina thereon (clients) engaged a company offering professional surveying services to do several surveys over the years to delineate the property lines on which the marina did business. The adjoining property was owned by Broward County, who notified clients after several surveys had been done that some improvements made in reliance on the surveys were encroaching on its land. Clients sued the surveyors for damages arising from breach of contract, professional malpractice, and various theories of negligence. Ultimately the trial court dismissed all…