Holmes v. McClendon

DONALD L. CORBIN, Justice.

This appeal involves an alleged conflict of interest resulting from one attorney’s representation of competing interests in a wrongful-death action. On August 21, 1999, Appellee Charlie McClendon Jr. was severely injured in a head-on collision that also took the lives of his wife, Brenda Lee Holmes McClendon, and his minor daughter, Kayla McClendon. Charlie was appointed as personal representative and administrator of his wife’s and daughter’s estates by the St. Francis County Probate Court. Charlie hired attorney B. Michael Easley to represent him, individually, in…