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KOHLER v. WOOLLEN, BROWN & HAWKINS

No. 11808.

15 Ill. App.3d 455 (1973)

304 N.E.2d 677

TERRY J. KOHLER, Admr. of the Estate of Darrell Wayne Wattles, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WOOLLEN, BROWN & HAWKINS, a Co-partnership, Defendants-Appellants. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DECATUR, Admr. of the Estate of Ronald Lee Brown, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WOOLLEN, BROWN & HAWKINS, a Co-partnership, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

December 13, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hershey, Bliss, Beavers & Periard, of Taylorville (Charles E. Bliss, of counsel), for appellants.

Wilson, Dyar, Houchen & McDonald, of Decatur (Vernon H. Houchen, of counsel), for appellees.

Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE TRAPP delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendants appeal from two judgments entered upon jury verdicts of $17,500 and $16,000 in consolidated actions for legal malpractice. Defendants, a co-partnership of attorneys, had been employed by the administrators of the estates of Ronald Lee Brown and Darrell Wayne Wattles to seek recovery for the deaths sustained in an automobile accident.

The decedents were passengers in...

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