Johnson v. McLean

DUGGAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment dismissing a pro se suit filed by a penitentiary inmate against his former attorney. In his original petition, appellant Daniel K. Johnson alleged that his attorney, appellee Kenneth McLean, had rendered incompetent and negligent legal services in his representation of appellant in a criminal proceeding for aggravated rape. Appellant sought damages in the amount of $5,000,000 and a rescission in equity of the original employment contract, such as to require a refund in full of the attorney’s fees paid by him to appellee. The trial…