Fort Myers Seafood Packers, Inc. v. Steptoe and Johnson

*262EDGERTON, Senior Circuit Judge:

Appellant Fort Myers Seafood Packers, Inc., sued appellees Steptoe et al. for damage due to “carelessness, negligence and improper legal advice given by said defendants * * * to plaintiff.” The District Court entered summary judgment for appellees. The court saw “no factual basis for concluding that the relationship of attorney and client * * existed between these parties.” We disagree.

At the request of one Mogdeberg, a client of appellees, appellees drew up and, on May 16, 1962, sent to appellant a proposed contract by which appellant would send its boats to…