Randall v. Paine-Nichols Abstract Co.

Plaintiffs, husband and wife, brought this action seeking to recover damages for alleged error in compiling an abstract. The amended petition alleged the defendant abstract company had been employed to compile an abstract covering plaintiffs’ farm; that it was compiled and delivered to the prospective purchasers without being seen by plaintiffs; that the abstracter negligently failed to show the property was burdened by a flow-age easement in favor of the United States; that subsequent to execution of their warranty deed their grantees sued plaintiffs for breach of warranty, and recovered…