Copenhaver v. Rogers

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the appellants, plaintiffs below — Preston Sheffey Copenhaver, III, David Cooper Copenhaver, and John K. H. Copenhaver, suing by his next friend, Preston Sheffey Copenhaver, III (hereinafter collectively referred to as the Copenhavers) — made sufficient allegations of legal malpractice against their grandparents’ lawyers to survive challenge by demurrer. The trial court held that the Copenhavers’ claims were demurrable. We agree.

Because the case is before us on demurrer, we accept as true all well-pled facts and reasonable inferences arising…