Goodley v. Wank & Wank, Inc.

Opinion

LILLIE, J.

The first amended complaint for negligence alleges “That plaintiff is the owner of the claim [legal malpractice] against defendants herein by virtue of a written assignment by Eleanor Rae Katz, dated August 7, 1972”; that defendants are attorneys at law and represented Eleanor Katz in a dissolution of marriage proceeding during the course of which they were negligent in advising her that they did not have to keep in their possession certain original insurance policies of which she was beneficiary and returned them to her, and in failing to secure a court order to restrain her…