Legal Opinion

Lima v. Schmidt

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided March 2, 1992No. 91-C-1848PublishedCited by 311 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

595 So.2d 624 (1992)

José E. LIMA and Andrea K. Lima

v.

Jonathan R. SCHMIDT.

No. 91-C-1848.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

March 2, 1992.

John Dale Powers, Powers, Vaughn & Clegg, Baton Rouge, for applicant.

W. Paul Anderson, Leake & Anderson, New Orleans, for respondent.

HALL, Justice.

Plaintiffs filed this malpractice action against defendant attorney in November 1988, alleging that defendant, who represented them in a real estate transaction in June 1983, was negligent in failing to inform them of the existence of a $150,000 collateral mortgage encumbering the property that they acquired in the…

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