Lilly v. Boyd
Supreme Court of Georgia
Attorney and Client. Actions. Statute of Limitations. Damages. Before Judge Estes. Lumpkin Superior Court-April Term, 1883. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Blandeord, Justice.
C. A. Lilly brought his action on the case against "Wier Boyd, in which he alleged that on the 25th March, 1866, he paid defendant for his opinion as an, attorney at law; that- defendant had previously thereto been employed *84as such attorney to investigate the titles to certain lots of land, and upon the advice and opinion of said attorney that plaintiff.purchased said lands; that on the 12th day of April, 1880, he and his assigns were duly evicted from four-fifths of the lands mentioned. The declaration was demurred to, on the ground that the plaintiff’s cause of action was…
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