Legal Opinion
Better Homes, Inc. v. Rodgers
District Court, N.D. West Virginia
Decided June 22, 1961No. Civ. A. 244-MPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHARLES F. PAUL, District Judge.
This is an action brought against a lawyer, and the other members of a law firm with which he is associated, by his former client to recover damages for the negligent performance or nonperformance by the lawyer of his undertaking to file and prosecute in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia a petition for writ of error to a judgment for $13,500.00 which had been rendered against the client in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia.
The lawyer was local counsel for the defense of the client in an action brought in the Circuit Court of…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- McLellan v. FullerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
- Pete v. HendersonCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1954
- Childs v. ComstockAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902
- Koblegard Co. v. MaxwellWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1945
- General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corp. v. CosgroveWisconsin Supreme Court · 1950
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Daugert v. PappasWashington Supreme Court · 1985
- Charles Reinhart Co. v. WiniemkoMichigan Supreme Court · 1994
- Hoppe v. RanziniNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1978
- Allied Productions, Inc. v. DuesterdickSupreme Court of Virginia · 1977
- Ocean Ships, Inc. v. Thomas E. Stiles and Stiles & Wright, P.C.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2002
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