Hillhouse v. McDowell

The plaintiff in error filed a suit against the defendant in error, a duly licensed attorney of the Shelby County Bar, for his failure to prosecute a suit for malpractice against a certain doctor and a hospital in Memphis. The declaration was duly amended and a demurrer was filed to both the original and amended declarations, which the trial judge sustained. The ground of the demurrer was that the statute of limitations of one (1) year had run against the claim of the plaintiff in error against the defendant in error. Thus it is, that the sole issue here is, does the one year personal injury…