Brown v. Johnstone

HofstetteR. J.,

dissenting. I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion.

As it concerns the plaintiff on defen dant’s motion for summary judgment, the fact situation, illogical as it may seem to some trained legal minds, requires the questionable facts to be considered as factual questions. As the majority opinion states, “Appellant contends that no one ever informed him that Johnstone no longer represented him and, therefore, he considered Johnstone to be his attorney until he hired Zavarello. The trial court found that the attorney-client relationship terminated when Brown filed his…