Legal Opinion
Kumaraperu v. Feldsted CA2/1
California Court of Appeal
Decided May 26, 2015No. B253978PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
CHANEY, Acting P. J. —
In this legal malpractice action, plaintiff Sondra Wise Kumaraperu alleges her attorneys negligently advised her to draw a check on an account that she owned but on which she was not a signatory and deposit the funds into another account she owned, which she alleges exposed her to a criminal forgery prosecution. The trial court sustained the attorneys’ demurrer without leave to amend on the grounds that Kumaraperu bore unclean hands and failed to allege she had been found factually innocent of forgery. We affirm, but on a different ground; Transferring one’s own…
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