Bell v. Manning

MOORE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment rendered in favor of an attorney in a suit filed by a non-client seeking damages for negligent misrepresentation. Plaintiffs, Lloyd Bell and wife, Mildred Bell, instituted suit against William C. Manning, Esq., alleging that in the course of the closing of a contract for the construction of a house upon plaintiffs’ property, defendant William C. Manning, the attorney representing J.W. Guill, the contractor, acting by and through his secretary, made certain false representations to the plaintiffs by stating that it was necessary for them…