No action may be brought against an engineer or any professional land surveyor, as defined in s. 443.01 (7m), to recover damages for negligence, errors, or omission in the making of any survey nor for contribution or indemnity related to such negligence, errors, or omissions more than 6 years after the completion of a survey.
Wis. Stat. § 893.37
Survey
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 218 Wis. 2d 245 - Tomczak v. Bailey (1998)
Most recently applied in 2001 WI App 230 - Kain v. Bluemound East Industrial Park, Inc. (September 2001)
1979 c. 323 s. 3; Stats. 1979 s. 893.36; 1979 c. 355 s. 228; Stats. 1979 s. 893.37; 2013 a. 358
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