Welch v. Cooper

Gunter, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment based on a jury verdict after a trial. The judgment granted specific performance of a contract to purchase real estate. The appellant has enumerated several errors, but her main contention is that the trial court overruled her motion, made prior to trial, that attorneys representing the appellee should be disqualified on the ground of conflict of interest.

Prior to trial the trial judge conducted a hearing on the motion to disqualify, heard evidence, and then denied the motion. He found that the attorneys sought to be disqualified had not been…