Southeast Consultants, Inc. v. O'Pry

How courts have described this case

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• noting subcontractor defendants “had ample opportunity to show that the house at least had some ‘scrap value,’ but there is no such evidence” and hence plaintiffs’ estimate of zero value would be accepted
• measure of damages for negligent misrepresentation by-engineers who performed erroneous percolation tests for new house is the difference in the current value of the house and the value as it should have been built
• laypersons justifiably relied on misrepresentations by professionals

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).