DOSS & HARPER STONE CO. v. HOOVER BROS. FARMS

No. 27006.

191 S.W.3d 59 (2006)

DOSS & HARPER STONE CO., INC., Plaintiff-Respondent, v. HOOVER BROTHERS FARMS, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Division Two.

March 31, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. Phillips, Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, LLP, Kansas City, for appellant.

Kenneth A. Wagoner, Brill, Moore & Wagoner, P.C., West Plains, for respondent.


KENNETH W. SHRUM, Presiding Judge.

The mining lease at issue here was drafted by a person with rock quarry and mining experience but no apparent legal training. The document typifies why the public needs greater protection from the unauthorized practice of law by lay persons, whether by non-lawyer title company employees, on-line non-lawyer purveyors of legal documents, or others (as occurred here).

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