Mumford v. Staton, Whaley & Price

This case involves the question as to when the statute of limitations begins to run in a case arising out of an act of alleged professional malpractice against an attorney for damages resulting from reliance upon a title letter which assumed certain facts concerning the chain of title which subsequently proved to be erroneous.

Sobescus Cromleigh by deed dated June 1, 1906, and recorded among the land records of Worcester County, Maryland, in Liber F.H.P. No. 25, folios 162 and 163, acquired from the Fenwick Island Land Company, a body corporate, two parcels of land, designated as lots 5 and 6,…