Murphy v. Fidelity Abstract & Title Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Yakima county, Taylor, J., entered November 4, 1919, upon findings in favor of plaintiff, in an action on contract, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtParker, J.
— This is an action for damages claimed by the plaintiff, Murphy, as a result of an untrue statement negligently made by the defendant abstract company in an abstract of title prepared by it for him, that an irrigation assessment lien upon a tract of land in Yakima county was paid, upon which land he had a mortgage. A trial upon the merits in the superior court for that county, sitting without a jury, resulted in findings and judgment in favor of the plaintiff, from which the defendant has appealed to this court.
The facts of the case are not in dispute, except as to the question of the amount…
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