Widemshek v. Fale

The issues plaintiff raises on this appeal are whether he is entitled to recover damages, compensatory, nominal, or punitive, against defendant by reason of his failure to obtain a first mortgage on the property, and whether the negligent or fraudulent acts of the defendant entitled plaintiff to recover necessary attorney’s fees and other expenses that he incurred in seeking to establish the liability of defendant.

An attorney negligent in the performance of his düties to his client is liable for all the damages sustained as a proximate result of his negligence. 7 C. J. S., Attorney and…