Legal Opinion
Cleckner v. Dale
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided August 13, 1986PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KOCH, Judge.
This is a legal malpractice action against an attorney retained to represent the buyers in a real estate transaction. His clients filed this action in the Circuit Court for Davidson County after they were required to pay additional funds to obtain the release of a bank’s attachments on the property. They alleged that their lawyer failed to inform them of the existence of these attachments and failed to conduct the closing in a proper manner. The jury determined that the lawyer had been negligent but that his negligence did not cause his clients’ losses.
The clients have…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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- O'NEIL v. BerganDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1982
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