ORC 12 February 1990. This action was brought by (B) for damages for breach of contract by their surveyors (H). H made a structural survey of a property for B and advised in a written report as to its structure and condition. On the basis of this B bought the house for £56,520. The breach involved a lack of reasonable care and skill in carrying out the survey and giving the advice and manifested in a failure to detect or report upon substantial structural defects . At first H denied the charge but on the second day of the hearing admitted liability, the only question to be decided was damages . The defect consisted of the front and rear walls being forced slightly apart due to inadequate design of the roof . It was agreed that at the date of purchase the property could have been stabalised and made sound and that the measure of damages should be that established by Perry v Sidney Philips and Son (1982) ie the difference between the price paid for the house and the price a purchaser c