Howard v. Wicker

|2CARTER, Judge.

This is an appeal from a trial court judgment in an action for damages arising out of an action for legal malpractice.

FACTS

On August 4, 1983, Seaborn R. Wicker, Jr. and Jean Brown Wicker1 purchased from Kent A. Howard and Karen Smith Howard a tract of land in the Parish of East Baton Rouge. The Act of Cash Sale recited a cash consideration of $160,000.00. However, only $60,000.00 in cash had been paid, and the Howards permitted the Wickers to substitute a $100,000.00 promissory note for the remaining cash consideration. The promissory note, executed by the Wickers, was made…