Howard v. McFarland
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Beasley, Presiding Judge.
Water damaged the residence of Darryl and Joann McFarland and some of its contents. They discovered their house was located in a flood plain and sued the Dunns, from whom they bought the house, and Gregory Howard, the original builder. Evidence showed that Howard knew the house was in a flood plain when he built it in 1988 and that the Dunns were keenly aware of the problem before selling to the McFarlands in 1995.
Asserted against Howard were three claims: fraud (concealing the flood plain problem); vicarious liability (contracting for two surveys of the property,…
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