Legal Opinion
Cook v. Connolly
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided April 19, 1985No. C6-83-2043PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIMONETT, Justice.
This appeal raises the issue whether a prior court order approving a minor personal injury settlement bars, by collateral es-toppel, a subsequent malpractice suit by the injured person against her attorney for an allegedly inadequate settlement. The Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, with two concurrences and two dissents, held that collateral estoppel was a bar. Cook v. Connolly, 353 N.W.2d 184 (Minn.App.1984). We reverse.
On May 1, 1969, plaintiff-appellant Robin Cook, age 4, caught her right arm in the wringer of a washing machine, necessitating amputation of the arm near…
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