Watson v. Calvert Building & Loan Ass'n

This appeal brings before us for consideration the question of the liability, under the circumstances of the present case, of an attorney at law for the omission to discover the presence upon the public records of a judgment which was a lien upon a lot of ground the title to which he had been employed to examine. The judgment was not upon the record at the time when the title was in fact examined by the attorney, but it was entered by confession in the interval between his examination and the execution of a mortgage upon the lot to his client.

The testimony tended to prove the following facts:

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