McCluskey v. Womack

In this legal malpractice action, plaintiffs appeal the lower court’s granting of summary disposition for defendant regarding count i of plaintiffs’ complaint, which alleged professional negligence. Summary disposition with regard to this count was premised on the court’s finding that the period of limitation applicable to the underlying claim for which defendant was retained had expired before plaintiffs hired defendant to represent them. We affirm.

Plaintiffs were, until January 1981, employees of Nu-Car Driveaway, Inc., which hauled and stored new cars manufactured by Chrysler Corporation.…