LORRAINE v. GROVER, CIMENT, WEINSTEIN & STAUBER, P.A.

No. 84-975.

467 So.2d 315 (1985)

Olive LORRAINE, a Beneficiary under the Last Will and Testament of Cecil Johnson, Appellant, v. GROVER, CIMENT, WEINSTEIN & STAUBER, P.A., Marvin Weinstein, Individually, and INA Underwriters Insurance Company of Los Angeles, California (Inapro), a Foreign Corporation, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied March 13, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fogle & Poole and Lewis H. Fogle, Jr., William Feldman, Miami, for appellant.

Marlow, Shofi, Ortmayer, Smith, Connell & Valerius and Joseph H. Lowe, Miami, for appellees.

Before HUBBART, NESBITT and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.


NESBITT, Judge.

The plaintiff appeals a summary final judgment entered in favor of the defendants on a claim of legal malpractice in drafting a will. We affirm.

The facts relevant to this appeal are undisputed. In March 1981, Johnson, while in the hospital, contacted Weinstein, an attorney, to have a will drawn up. A phone conversation ensued between Johnson, Weinstein and Weinstein's secretary, in which the secretary took notes on Johnson's testamentary wishes...

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