Ginther v. Zimmerman

Plaintiffs appeal as of right from the circuit court’s order granting summary disposition to defendants. We affirm.

In their amended complaint, plaintiffs alleged that defendants committed legal malpractice when they failed to carry out the estate plan of May Hubbard Shippey by which plaintiffs would have received certain real estate. Plaintiffs also set forth a third-party-beneficiary theory, alleging that defendants breached their contract with Mrs. Shippey to properly draft testamentary documents and that Mrs. Shippey intended that plaintiffs directly benefit from that contractual…