Mogley v. Fleming

WILLIAM H. CRANDALL, Jr., Presiding Judge.

Defendant, Lawrence J. Fleming, appeals from the judgment entered after a jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, Robert J. Mogley, on his claims for legal malpractice and fraud. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

In 1956, plaintiff, an attorney, began working for Chicago Title Insurance Company (Chicago Title). Sometime in the 1970’s, plaintiff took over Chicago Title’s St. Louis “operation.” In 1981, Chicago Title informed plaintiff, then age fifty-four, that due to the company’s sale of the St. Louis office it was eliminating plaintiffs…