Gram v. Davis

McGEE, Judge.

This appeal arises from a malpractice action filed against defendant counsel and defendant law firm (collectively defendants) on 5 March 1993 by plaintiff for damages he alleged he incurred as a result of defendants’ negligent failure to inform him that a restrictive covenant burdening real property he intended to purchase prohibited the use of the land to access another subdivision.

Plaintiff’s evidence at trial tended to show that in January 1990 plaintiff made an offer to purchase approximately twenty-two acres of land on Hope Mills Lake in Hope Mills, North Carolina (Hope…