WOODRUFF v. TOMLIN

No. 77-1216.

593 F.2d 33 (1979)

Joan WOODRUFF, Patricia Woodruff Hamilton and Louis Hamilton, her husband, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Hewitt P. TOMLIN, Jr., Homer H. Waldrop, Roy Hall, and David R. Farmer, Individually and as partners doing business under the name and style of Waldrop, Hall, Tomlin & Farmer, a Professional Business Association, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 22, 1979.

Rehearing Granted May 24, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman Herring, Phoenix, Ariz., James F. Schaeffer, Memphis, Tenn., by Norman Herring, counsel for plaintiffs-appellants.

Leo Bearman, John J. Thomason, Memphis, Tenn., for defendants-appellees.

Before EDWARDS, Chief Judge, and WEICK and CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing En Banc Granted May 24, 1979.

WEICK, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants' suit in the District Court was against an attorney at law and his law firm, to recover damages, alleging legal malpractice consisting of conflicts of interest and negligence in their representation of plaintiffs in personal injury actions arising out of a truck-auto collision, which actions the attorneys filed in plaintiffs' behalf in the state court, and which resulted in...

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