United States Fourth Circuit

Under South Carolina law, a professional appraiser is liable to a third party for negligent misrepresentation, where the third party detrimentally relied upon the appraiser's materially inaccurate and negligent appraisal of the "as is" market value of a parcel of property.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/03/2002
• Decided 07/19/2002
• Published 07/19/2002

Judges

• Before WILKINS and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Michael Wallace Tighe, Callison, Tighe & Robinson, L.L.P., Columbia, South Carolina, for Defendants-Appellants.  Jeffrey Lawrence Payne, Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney, P.A., Florence, South Carolina, for Plaintiff-Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Louis H. Lang, Callison, Tighe & Robinson, L.L.P., Columbia, South Carolina, for Defendants-Appellants.