Brown v. Babcock

This is an action at lawT for damages allegedly suffered bv plaintiffs as the result of legal malpractice by the defendant attorneys in the defense of a suit against the plaintiffs to foreclose a land sale contract. The case, was tried before a jury, which returned a verdict for defendants.

In appealing from the resulting judgment plaintiffs’ sole assignment of error is that the. trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury, as a matter of law, that plaintiffs’ action had been brought- within the time allowed by the statute, of limitations and that the jury was to therefore disregard…