Barry v. Anderson

The plaintiff, who is an attorney at law, began this action against the defendant to recover the sum of f 200 for legal services. The defendant answered substantially that in 1897 he employed the plaintiff to foreclose certain tax certificates and procure him a good title to a certain tract of land; that plaintiff instituted an action for this purpose, which was prosecuted to final judgment, and afterwards advised him that the title procured was a good and merchantable title; that he paid plaintiff for the services, and, relying on this advice, he sold the land; that the title was afterwards…