In the middle of throwing blame around for a real estate deal gone wrong, might as well blame the surveyor who did an easement that had nothing to do with the title issues attached to the land.?ÿ
It's kinda like blaming the tire store who put new tires on your trailer for the transmission in your truck giving out.?ÿ
That's great. But, it's still your fault!
You were gonna extort me for 2500$.
But, really, you aught pay me 10k, for messing it up!
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25+ years ago my Private Sector Boss, a Civil Engineer, had done some miscellaneous structural design for tract houses, sizing beams for the Architect's design, eliminating sky hooks, that sort of thing.
Some of the foundations moved and cracked causing issues with upstairs closet doors so the homeowner's sued.?ÿ Boss said in Case Settlement Meetings the Judge would discreetly ask various defendants how much money they could kick in, Boss said I have no money to kick in, I'm broke (bad economy then).?ÿ Anyway that is mostly what it is, a search for sources of funds to pay to settle the case.?ÿ Name everyone, most will offer something to resolve the case.
At the time I was a member of a flying club.?ÿ A member took off in an overloaded C172 on a hot afternoon, spun in and killed himself and three passengers.?ÿ Big lawsuit by one of the big time ambulance chasers in town.?ÿ Cessna, the engine maker, the Liability Insurance Company, some other defendants had a private meeting and managed to come up with 800 plus thousand dollars to offer to settle.?ÿ Ambulance Chaser (he was getting older, my impression of him at trial was he had lost a lot of his edge) turned it down, wanted at least 1 million.?ÿ So Liability Insurance Company said Nope and went to trial and won, jury put all the liability on the Pilot who is dead and had virtually no assets.?ÿ We kept thinking the Ambulance Chaser must have something, couldn't figure it out, he had nothing, we just called his bluff but maybe he had declined with age to the point that he didn't know he was bluffing.?ÿ 90% of injury lawyering is reputation...better settle because BIG SCARY LAWYER.?ÿ But the Insurance Company Lawyer was from out of town and didn't know this guy was supposed to be so scary or he read him completely correctly.
I got involved in a case from being a bystander (professionally), I wasn't being sued. The difference in court between the winner's attorney and the loser's attorney was stark. Clearly the loser's attorney should have advised the client to drop the case. Local Scary Lawyer, vs. out of towner. Out of towner won.
