Sargent v. Buckley

WATHEN, Chief Justice.

[¶ 1] Plaintiff, J. Carolyn Sargent, appeals from the judgment entered in the Superior Court (Penobscot County, Marsano, J.) granting defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiffs amended complaint pursuant to M.R. Civ. P.12(b)(6). The complaint was brought against an individual attorney, Philip Buckley, and his law firm, Rudman & Winehell. It alleges claims of fraud and breach of a fiduciary duty arising from defendants’ representation of plaintiffs husband in her action for divorce. With respect to count I of the complaint, plaintiff argues that the court erred by ruling…