Sutton v. Hofeld

Plaintiff, George C. Sutton, M.D., filed a two-count complaint against defendants, Albert E Hofeld, an attorney at law, and Albert F. Hofeld, Ltd., a professional corporation. The issue on appeal is whether plaintiff’s complaint sufficiently states a cause of action.

This lawsuit resulted from an earlier suit for medical malpractice which was filed in 1975. In that suit, defendant Hofeld was the attorney for Donald Palmer, the plaintiff. The plaintiff in the instant suit, George C. Sutton, was one of the defendants in the 1975 medical malpractice suit, along with the hospital where the death…