Johnson v. Crisler

Appellant brought this action in the county court of Coahoma county against appellee to recover damages alleged to have been suffered because appellee, an attorney at law and abstractor of titles to land, employed by appellant to examine and certify to an abstract of title to a certain piece of land which appellant contemplated buying, and later bought, made a false certificate to such abstract of title. There was a trial in the county court resulting in appellee’s favor; from that judgment, appellant appealed to the circuit court of Coahoma County, and there the judgment of the county court…