Smith v. Knight

This case involves a statute of limitations defense in a suit by a client against his attorney and the estate of that attorney’s deceased law partner alleging legal malpractice arising from a title examination prepared by the attorney in 1972. The title examination prepared by the attorney for the client’s closing did not disclose a lien which the client later allegedly discovered and paid to release in 1976. In 1978 the client filed this suit.

The trial court granted summary judgment for the estate of the deceased partner on the estate’s motion invoking the two-year statute of limitations.…