Fernandez Co. v. Birtley

COWART, Judge.

This case involves the liability of an abstracter to one other than the original purchaser of the abstract who purchases land in reliance on the abstract and incurs damages by reason of a negligent omission from the abstract.

The original 1898 plat of survey for a land subdivision by Lake Winnemissett Land Improvement Company subdivided all of the north half of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter, Section 13, Township 17 South, Range 30 East, of Volusia County, Florida, that did not lie in Lake Winnemissett (or Lake Charles) into six lots numbered 22 through 27 and…