Johnson v. Cornett

ROBERTSON, Judge.

Appellants Phillip B. Johnson and/or Johnson and Eaton (Johnson and Eaton), Attorneys at law, appeal a decision of the Ripley Cireuit Court in favor of appellee Eugene P. Cornett (Cornett).

We affirm.

Cornett filed a complaint on January 25, 1982, alleging that Johnson and Eaton were guilty of legal malpractice while representing him in a dissolution decree and property settlement dispute. Johnson and Eaton filed a motion to dismiss which was grant ed on the basis that the alleged cause of action occurred more than two years before it was brought and was therefore barred by the…