Staab v. Cameron

DUNN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment granted to the defendant in an attorney malpractice action. We affirm.

The facts involved in this case have been before us on three separate occasions: Staab v. Skoglund, 89 S.D. 470, 234 N.W.2d 45 (1975) (Staab I); Skoglund v. Staab, 269 N.W.2d 401 (S.D.1978) (Staab II); and Skoglund v. Staab, 312 N.W.2d 29 (1981) (Staab III). Since the first of those opinions details the facts at great length, we will not duplicate them all here; we will focus only on the most important events.

Verenna Staab was the owner of a quarter section of land in…