Bowen v. Smith

URBIGKIT, Justice.

This appeal, in current course of events, presents the third lawsuit in what is now generally designed to be a legal malpractice action. Appellants, as minority shareholders, sued Smith, Stanfield and Scott— the attorneys who represented the majority shareholder and parent corporation after rights against a third party were resolved *187by a favorable cash settlement, and the shareholders could not then agree on a division of the settlement proceeds. That disagreement was litigated through appeal, Squaw Mountain Cattle Co. v. Bowen, 804 P.2d 1292 (Wyo.1991), with the minority…