Hill v. Cloud

1. An attorney at law employed to examine title to real estate who negligently fails to report an existing outstanding lien upon the property is liable to his client for the actual damage sustained as a result of the attorney’s negligence. 6 C. J. 711.

2. Where a person having a lien upon property employed an attorney to examine the title to the property, and the attorney negligently overlooked and failed to report the record of an outstanding lien on the property, and, in reliance upon the report of the attorney, the person employing him took up another lien on the property, and the lien…