Littleton v. Stone

Smith, Judge.

In this legal malpractice case, Billy J. Littleton and Linda Faye Littleton appeal from the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to William S. Stone, the attorney who represented them in a medical malpractice action. In the medical malpractice suit (“the underlying action”), the Littletons sought recovery for the allegedly negligent delivery of their infant daughter, who died shortly after she was born.1 This legal malpractice action arose out of the dismissal by Stone of the Littletons’ medical malpractice action in superior court and its subsequent refiling in state court.…