Legal Opinion
Patricia Sparks v. James Wiley Craft, Cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 12, 1996No. 94-5801, 94-5838PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
James Wiley Craft, an attorney, appeals from the malpractice award entered against him in favor of Patricia Sparks. After Sparks’s son was killed in a ear wreck, she hired Craft to sue the other driver. Craft allowed the statute of limitations to expire without perfecting Sparks’s suit against the other driver. Craft argues that Sparks improperly sued him in her personal capacity, rather than as representative of her son’s estate, and that the malpractice damage award was too great because the district court overestimated the amount of insurance Sparks could have…
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