Legal Opinion
Kay Pinkham v. John A. Burgess, Kay I. Pinkham v. John A. Burgess
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 22, 1991No. 90-1254, 90-1313PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.
Both parties appeal from a judgment on a jury verdict awarding plaintiff Kay Pink-ham damages on her claim of negligent representation by defendant attorney John Burgess. We affirm.
I. Background
In early 1980, Kay Pinkham was arrested for forging a stock certificate with the name of Maurice Rodrigue, a principal stockholder in the corporation that Pink-ham and several others had jointly established. The complaining party was a fellow stockholder, Frank Johansen, who, together with Rodrigue, had been involved in a stockholder dispute with Pinkham. Pink-ham was tried…
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