Legal Opinion
Hughes v. Malone
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided May 3, 1978No. 55295PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Birdsong, Judge.
Hughes appeals the grant of summary judgment, entered in behalf of Malone after the filing of a complaint/ alleging legal malpractice by Malone in his repre-' sentation of Hughes.
The facts show that Hughes entered into a fraudulent scheme with one of his ex-employees (one Logan), to print counterfeit U. S. currency. Hughes made the negatives from which Logan made the plates and arranged for the currency to be printed; approximately $5,000,000 in counterfeit $20 bills was produced. Unknown to Malone, one of his employees, one Goode, was involved in the counterfeiting scheme and…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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- Pilgrim v. LandhamCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1940
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