Tidwell v. HINTON & POWELL

DOYLE, Presiding Judge.

This interlocutory appeal arises from the trial court’s exclusion of expert testimony in a legal malpractice action. For the reasons that follow, we reverse and remand.

Following the death of their son on a Coweta County school bus, Bobby and Lillie Tidwell hired attorney Jack Hinton of Hinton & Powell (“Hinton”) to represent them in a wrongful death action. Hinton filed suit against the Coweta County Board of Education, but later discovered that only the school district — not the board of education — has the capacity to be sued. Rather than adding the school district as…