Winslow, Inc. v. Scaife

On July 12, 1976, the plaintiffs, Winslow, Inc., and Richard B. Colyer, partners trading as Tanglewood Lake, filed a motion for judgment against the defendants, William M. Scaife, Jr., and Gerald F. Dalton, attorneys at law of Fredericksburg. In the motion, the plaintiffs sought recovery of $97,316.06, which sum the plaintiffs alleged they had lost as a result of the defendants’ breach of duty in closing a real estate transaction in September, 1973.

The defendants filed a plea of the statute of limitations. The issue on the plea was whether the case was governed, as the defendants contended,…