Logotheti v. Gordon

In this appeal, we consider the sufficiency of a complaint filed in the Superior Court alleging that the defendant attorney, who drafted a will for a client, violated duties he owed to a potential heir at law to exercise reasonable care to assure that the client had testamentary capacity and was free from undue influence. 2 The complaint asserts the following material facts. On or about July 8, 1983, Mary Papouleas’s friend, Bessie Zafferes, asked the defendant to draft a will for Papouleas. On the same day, the defendant met with Papouleas at her room at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute to…