Fortune v. English
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. O. Brown, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
This is an action on the case brought by appellant in the circuit court of Cook county to recover damages alleged to have resulted from negligence of the appellee in the performance of his duties as attorney at law under an employment as such by the appellant. The declaration alleged, in substance, that the plaintiff having contracted to purchase from Emma A. Leahy certain real estate in Cook county in fee simple and unencumbered for $22,000, employed the defendant, as an attorney at law, to examine the title to said real estate, and if it proved to be a good title in fee simple and…
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