Siano v. Martinelli

The plaintiff brought an action in tort against the defendant attorney for legal *947malpractice, alleging that the attorney had negligently failed to perfect and process the plaintiffs appeal from a judgment of a Probate Court which, by its terms, ordered the plaintiff to demolish or otherwise remove a building that he had constructed on land in which he had no right, title, or interest. The judge in the present action directed a verdict in the defendant’s favor, Mass.R.Civ.P. 50(a), 365 Mass. 814 (1974), on the basis that the plaintiff had failed to present sufficient evidence to show that had…