Calhoun v. Tapley

Banke, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, Carolyn Calhoun, sued the appellee, Duston Tapley, for alleged legal malpractice. She brings this appeal from the grant of Tapley’s motion for summary judgment.

In July of 1983, the appellant arranged to help an acquaintance, O. E. Smith, purchase a residence by securing financing from her bank, purchasing the property herself, and then deeding it over to Smith in a “wraparound” transaction in which he undertook to pay the bank financing, and she received from him a promissory note and a security deed to the property. The appellee represented Smith in the…