SOUTHLAND MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTORS CORP. v. NIXEN

Docket No. 23545.

119 Cal.App.3d 417 (1981)

173 Cal. Rptr. 917

SOUTHLAND MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTORS CORPORATION et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. ALAN NIXEN et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Two.

May 21, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye, Terry D. Ross, Jeffrey M. Shohet, David L. Osias and Dennis Schoville for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

MacDonald, Halsted & Laybourne, Charles H. Dick, Jr., David C. Doyle, Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard, Roy M. Brisbois and Jeffrey A. Tidus for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

McDANIEL, J.

This litigation for legal malpractice arose after plaintiffs, subcontractors for the construction of a government-sponsored housing project, lost their right to receive from the Army Corps of Engineers additional payments for work done on the project. Plaintiffs allege that the defendants, the prime contractor on the project and plaintiffs' attorneys, were responsible...

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