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001			ABS38321
008			090401t1987 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
035			_a(Sirsi) u9937
041			_aeng
245			_aCochrane v Graham and Sibbald
260			_c1987
350			_a0
490			_aScots Law Times _v(1987) SLT 622-625(4)
520			_aCourt of Session Second Division 25 February 1987. Appeal by defendant surveyors (G) against sheriff court decision awarding damages against G for alleged negligence in a survey report of a house purchased by the pursuers (C). C purchased the house on the strength of the report. The house was later discovered to have dry rot . C, a married couple who lived in Scone, decided to move to Dundee as the husband was employed there. C raised the purchase price by obtaining a mortgage of 22,500 and a bridging loan of 23,000, used to redeem the mortgage of 9,000 on their house in Scone. C intended to repay the bridging loan from the sale proceeds of the house in Scone. Dry rot was discovered before C moved in and they decided to take the Scone house off the market and remain living there with the husband commuting to work. To pay for the repair work on the Dundee house C took out a second mortgage of 12,000 on the Scone house. The Sheriff held that G had been negligent and awarded damages rep
650			_aMEASURE OF DAMAGES
650			_aPROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE
650			_aSCOTLAND
650			_aSurvey reports _96270
650			_aVALUATIONS
690			_aMANAGEMENT-BUSINESS MANAGEMENT-PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
942			_n0
948			_c04/03/1997
999			_c6252 _d6252