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LAWSON v. CAGLE

85-684.

504 So.2d 226 (1987)

William S. LAWSON v. Dewayne CAGLE.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied March 20, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Sharp and Mac B. Greaves of Sadler, Sullivan, Sharp & Stutts, Birmingham, and Jerry W. Jackson, Haleyville, for appellant.

Bill Thomason, Bessemer, for appellee.

C.R. McRae, Pascagoula, Miss., for amicus curiae Mississippi Trial Lawyers Assoc.

William H. Atkinson, John H. Bentley, and James K. Davis of Fite, Davis, Atkinson & Bentley, James Clark Cashion and Bill Fite, Hamilton, and H. Neal Cook, Samuel L. Masdon III, and Hobson Manasco, Jr., Haleyville, and Jerry F. Guyton, Nelson Vinson, and Oliver Frederick Wood of Vinson & Guyton, and Charles Harry Green, Hamilton, amici curiae in support of appellant Lawson's position.

PER CURIAM.

The defendant is an attorney; the plaintiff is a former client of the defendant's. This is a fraud action, not a legal malpractice action. The jury awarded the plaintiff $2,500,000.

The pertinent facts are as follows: The plaintiff was seriously injured in an accident which occurred in Mississippi in July of 1972. Plaintiff obtained Alabama counsel in November 1972. In July 1977, five years after the accident, Alabama counsel contacted the defendant...

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