Wilson v. Jefferson

Opinion

ROTH, P. J.

The appeal is from a default judgment for $50,000 in general damages and $80,000 in punitive damages against appellant Philip T. Jefferson and in favor of respondent Alma T. Wilson, based upon respondent’s complaint which asserted that appellant, an attorney, committed malpractice in negligently and fraudulently failing within the applicable period of limitation to initiate proceedings incident to respondent’s cause of action for personal injuries sustained by her in October 1979.

The question presented for our resolution, simply stated, is whether the trial court under the…