Surveyor liable over trail of rot

Surveyor liable over trail of rot - 1988 - Times 28/5/88 p37 .

In Roberts and Another v J Hampson and Co QBD 26 May 1988, a surveyor , who carried out a building society valuation , was held to be liable in negligence for finding dampness in a skirting board and failing to follow it up. Had he done so he would have discovered that the process was still active.


LIABILITY
MORTGAGE VALUATIONS
ROT