Goodner v. Mosher-Roe Abstract & Guaranty Co.

This is a suit against an abstracter bottomed on defendant’s failure to show in an abstract of title furnished by it the previous filing of an alleged mechanic’s lien.

The petition alleged that defendant was engaged at Kansas City, Missouri, in the business of examining titles to real estate as disclosed by the public records and of making and furnishing written abstracts showing the state of such titles; that on the 9th day of April, 1921, defendant made and delivered to plaintiff, for a consideration paid by her, an abstract of the title to certain real estate situated in Kansas City (in…