Smith v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company

E. GORDON WEST, District Judge:

This is a legal malpractice ease brought by the plaintiffs, Dr. Edgar D. Smith and Mr. Hugh E. Smith against Dalton Barranger, Esq., his law firm, Barranger, Barranger and Jones, and their professional liability insurer, St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Compa ny. The essential facts are not in serious dispute.

Mrs. Rose Champlin Heyer, a citizen of Louisiana and the mother of the two plaintiffs, died on April 21, 1969. Her heirs, Edgar and Hugh Smith, citizens of Arkansas, employed Mr. Dalton Bar-ranger, a member of the defendant law firm, to handle the…