Price v. Becker

OPINION

FRANKS, Judge.

In this action alleging legal malpractice, the trial court granted summary judgment to defendant and we affirm on the basis that plaintiff failed to institute this action within the time required by Tenn.Code Ann. § 28-3-104.

Plaintiff filed her complaint on October 28, 1987 and as a basis of the action averred:

[T]he defendant, after accepting the plaintiff as a client, negligently failed to execute reasonable care in investigating, negotiating, preparing and pleading the plaintiffs claims under the law, he having previously dismissed a lawsuit in the United States…