Stewart v. McDonald

McFadden, Presiding Judge.

Robert J. Stewart filed this lawsuit against attorney Gus McDonald for legal malpractice, among other things. Stewart claimed that, as a result of that malpractice, he had suffered financial loss in connection with the 2010 sale of a business which he had formed in 2001 with Chip Smith. A Rabun County jury returned a $392,000 verdict in favor of Stewart, but the superior court granted McDonald's motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. Stewart appeals from that order as well as the trial court's grant of McDonald's motion for a directed verdict on Stewart's…