Dolce v. Gamberdino

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE JIGANTI

delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiff, Viola C. Dolce, appeals a ruling which dismissed her action for legal malpractice as barred by the statute of limitations. Her complaint alleged that the defendants, Nello P. Gamberdino and LeRoy W. Gudgeon, while individually acting as her attorneys, failed to prosecute a workmen’s compensation claim relating to her husband’s death.

On February 17,1970, the plaintiff’s husband, Sare R. Dolce, died in an accident at work. The plaintiff is the executor of her husband’s will and his sole devisee and legatee. At the…