Legal Opinion
DeThorne v. Bakken
Court of Appeals of Wisconsin
Decided August 31, 1995No. 94-0892PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDykman, J.
Marilyn DeThorne and the estate of her deceased husband, A. Robert DeThorne, appeal from a judgment in which the trial court dismissed Marilyn's legal malpractice action against James F. Bakken, the attorney who supervised the execution of Robert's 1989 will. In Estate of DeThorne, 163 Wis. 2d 387, 471 N.W.2d 780 (Ct. App. 1991) (DeThorne I), we determined that the will had been improperly executed and was therefore invalid. In this legal malpractice action, Marilyn argues that the trial court erred when it concluded that Attorney Bakken had not negligently supervised the execution of…
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