Cosgrove v. Grimes

OPINION

DUNN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a legal malpractice suit in which the trial court granted a take nothing judgment against appellee, attorney Walter Grimes (“Grimes”). Grimes, representing appellant, Frank Cosgrove (“Cosgrove”), in a personal injury suit for damages sustained in an automobile collision, filed suit against the passenger, Timothy Purnell (“Purnell”), instead of the driver of the vehicle that hit Cosgrove. He also alleged in the petition the wrong streets in Baytown where the accident occurred on July 15, 1976.

Cosgrove had initially retained attorney Ed Bass (“Bass”),…