Legal Opinion
Barnes v. Turner
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 23, 2004No. S04G0813Published
1Opinion of the Court
606 S.E.2d 849 (2004)
278 Ga. 788
BARNES et al.
v.
TURNER.
No. S04G0813.
Supreme Court of Georgia.
November 23, 2004.
Reconsideration Denied December 9, 2004.
Jones, Jensen & Harris, Taylor W. Jones, Richard E. Harris, Atlanta, for appellants.
Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Johannes S. Kingma, John C. Rogers, Atlanta, for appellee.
FLETCHER, Chief Justice.
The issue in this legal malpractice case is what duty attorney David Turner, Jr. owed his client, William Barnes, Jr., with respect to maintaining Barnes's security interest that lapsed. The Court of Appeals held that Turner's only duty was to…
Also in this document: Dissent.
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