Kessler v. Gray

Opinion

THOMPSON, J.

Irving Kessler sued Dudley Gray, an attorney, for professional negligence. Gray admitted negligence in failing to bring a cross-complaint filed by Kessler against Milton Koomer and Joel Bressel to trial within the required period so that the cross-complaint was dismissed for want of prosecution. Gray, however, resisted Kessler’s right to recover on the theory that Kessler’s lawsuit against Koomer and Bressel would not have been successful. That issue was tried to a jury which awarded Kessler $25,500 computed as the amount of actual damage Kessler would have recovered on his…