Terracino v. Gordon and Hiller

The appellants have sued their former attorneys, claiming that they were negligent in not timely discovering that a coguarantor on a promissory note had purchased the note, which the appellants had guaranteed, at a discount, and that he or his assigns later enforced the note and guarantee *807against the plaintiffs at face value. Because I believe that the entry of summary judgment against the plaintiffs, Jerome G. Terraeino and Guardian Systems, Inc., improperly deprived them of the opportunity to prove that they would have been successful in the underlying case but for the lack of due diligence…