Collins v. Federal Land Bank of Omaha

CARTER, Justice.

Plaintiff Lavetta Collins and the administrator of her deceased husband’s estate appeal from an order dismissing their legal malpractice claims against defendant Alvin J. Ford. These claims were dismissed on the ground that they had become the property of the Collinses’ bankruptcy estate and therefore could not be pursued in plaintiffs’ own behalf.

Plaintiffs have also appealed the dismissal of claims against three other defendants in the case. As to the defendants other than Ford, we deem plaintiffs’ failure to argue any substantive issue in their appellants’ brief a waiver of…