Oar Lock Land & Cattle Co. v. Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Toole & Dietrich

This is an appeal from an order of the Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Yellowstone County, Montana, which granted respondents’ motion for summary judgment in an attorney malpractice claim. We affirm.

This action arose from a series of loan transactions which initially began sometime in 1965. At that time, John Dietrich (Dietrich) and Art Lamey (Lamey) of the Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Toole & Dietrich Law Firm (Crowley) represented both the appellants and the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Corporation (CML) in a real estate/loan transaction in which the appellants acquired ranch land. In…