SLATE v. BOONE COUNTY ABSTRACT COMPANY

No. 53400.

432 S.W.2d 305 (1968)

Donald SLATE and Adelia Slate, husband and wife, Appellants, v. BOONE COUNTY ABSTRACT COMPANY, a Corporation, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

October 14, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott Orr, Sapp, Woods, Dannov & Orr, Columbia, for appellants-plaintiffs.

Terence C. Porter, Welliver, Porter & Cleaveland, Columbia, for defendant-respondent.

Terence C. Porter, Columbia, for respondent; Welliver, Porter & Cleaveland, Columbia, of counsel.


FRANK D. CONNETT, Jr., Special Judge.

This is a suit for damages in the amount of $16,200 brought by the buyers of land against an abstract company. The buyers, Donald and Adelia Slate, allege in their petition that they were damaged as a result of the Boone County Abstract Company's negligent failure to include a utility easement in an abstract of title for a tract of land prepared and certified by the abstracter and delivered by it to the buyers at the request of...

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