PERKIO v. PRUNIER

No. 80-379

121 N.H. 871 (1981)

MATTI V. PERKIO & a. v. GERALD R. PRUNIER

Supreme Court of New Hampshire

October 7, 1981


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanton E. Tefft, of Bedford, by brief and orally, for the plaintiff.

Wadleigh, Starr, Peters, Dunn & Kohls, of Manchester (James S. Yakovakis & a. on the brief and Ronald J. Lajoie orally), for the defendant.


PER CURIAM.

The issues in this case are: at what point in time damages for an attorney's negligent representation that a parcel of land is free of encumbrances should be measured, and whether a plaintiff may recover for mental suffering as an element of damages in such an action.

In 1974, the plaintiffs, Matti Perkio and Joanne Keurulainen, now Perkio, signed a purchase and sale agreement for a tract of land in New...

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