Paul E. Repass v. Albert L. Vreeland and Leonard G. Brown, Individuals, and Vreeland & Brown, Anew Jersey Partnership in the Practice of Law

A plaintiff is being barred from recovery against his lawyers of the value of his serious personal injury case which he claims was lost by their negligent representation, simply because we now decide almost eight years later that at the time he retained them the statute of limitations against the tortfeasor had already expired. The lawyers, however, undertook to represent him and collected a substantial fee after assuring him that he had “a most excellent case.”

It seems to me that even if the statute had already run when the lawyers accepted plaintiff’s case, there was much which the record…