MUMFORD v. STATON, WHALEY & PRICE

[No. 356, September Term, 1968.]

254 Md. 697 (1969)

255 A.2d 359

MUMFORD v. STATON, WHALEY & PRICE, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 11, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James G. Beach, Jr., with whom was Walter R. Tabler on the brief, for appellant.

John L. Sanford, Jr., with whom were Sanford & Bolte, and Webb & Burnett on the brief, for appellees.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and MARBURY, McWILLIAMS, FINAN, SINGLEY and SMITH, JJ.


FINAN, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case involves the question as to when the statute of limitations begins to run in a case arising out of an act of alleged professional malpractice against an attorney for damages resulting from reliance upon a title letter which assumed certain facts concerning the chain of title which subsequently proved to be erroneous.

Sobescus Cromleigh by deed dated June 1, 1906, and recorded among the land records of...

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