Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance v. Daggett
Supreme Court of Arkansas
1Opinion of the Court
Tom Glaze, Justice.
In this legal malpractice lawsuit, appellants Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insur-ance Company and Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company of Arkansas (“Farm Bureau”) sued appellee, attorney Jesse Daggett, in Pulaski County Circuit Court, alleging that Daggett failed to perfect an appeal in an earlier Phillips County negligence lawsuit brought by Alfred Gammon against his employers, James H. Knight, Vaughn Knight, and M. H. Knight Farms, Inc. (hereinafter “the Knights” or “Knight Farms”). Daggett represented the Knights, and Gammon obtained an $800,000 jury verdict against the…
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