Sjobeck v. Leach

Streissguth, Justice.

Plaintiff sued defendants, copartners in the practice of law, for their alleged negligence in failing to procure his discharge in bankruptcy. He recovered a verdict of $992.32, representing the principal amount of a default judgment recovered against him by a creditor upon a claim which had been filed in the bankruptcy proceeding and which would have been released by his discharge in bankruptcy. The jury denied recovery upon a second cause of action for expenses incurred in the defense of an action upon the claim.

In 1935 plaintiff bought a retail clothing business in…