Sears v. Forbes

This is an action by the appellee against the appellant for damages sustained by reason of a failure on the part of the appellant^ as agent of the appellee, to examine the title of real estate purchased by him for appellee.

The complaint is in three paragraphs, numbered three, four and five, and the errors assigned are the overruling of demurrers to each paragraph of complaint, and overruling appellant’s motion for a new trial.

The third paragraph of complaint alleges that “ the defendant, William Sears, heretofore, to wit, on the 23d day of October, 1882, undertook for a compensation to be…