Legal Opinion
Chambers v. Dillow
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided July 21, 1986PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FONES, Justice.
This is an action against a lawyer and his law firm for malpractice.
Defendant was employed to sue Washington County for damages to plaintiff’s realty inflicted in the course of paving and repairing an adjacent roadway. The acts of malpractice alleged were (1) failure to include in the suit filed 28 March 1980 a cause of action for inverse condemnation; (2) allowing that suit to be dismissed on 18 March 1981 for failure to prosecute; and (3) intentionally concealing the dismissal of the suit against Washington County for approximately one year.
The trial judge held that…
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