Drury v. Butler
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, for a breach of an agreement by the defendants’ intestate, an attorney at law, to preserve the plaintiff’s rights and protect his interests in reference to the taking of a strip of land by the town of Framingham for the construction of a sewer. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Sherman, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendants alleged exceptions, the nature of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The defendants’ intestate, an attorney and counsellor at law, agreed with the plaintiff for a valuable consideration to preserve the plaintiff’s rights and to protect his interests .in reference to the taking of a strip of land by the town of Framingham for the construction of a sewer, and the plaintiff intrusted the business to him. He allowed more than two years to elapse after the taking without bringing a suit or taking any measures to obtain damages for the plaintiff, whereby, as the plaintiff alleges, the right to recover damages from the town was lost. This action was brought to…
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