Legal Opinion
Holmes v. Drucker
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided October 3, 1991No. A91A1508PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Birdsong, Presiding Judge.
This is an appeal by plaintiff Barbara Holmes in a legal malpractice action. Appellant was injured in an automobile collision on August 4, 1986, and retained attorney Kenneth Drucker on March 2, 1987, to file a personal injury lawsuit. Drucker failed to file suit on Holmes’ behalf before the statute of limitation expired as to her claims. This malpractice suit was filed June 26, 1989, alleging negligence, breach of fiduciary duty and fraud, Holmes contending that in addition to allowing the statute of limitation to expire on her claims, Drucker had stated falsely to…
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