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TEASDALE v. ALLEN

No. 85-771.

520 A.2d 295 (1987)

Caroline P. TEASDALE, et al., Appellants v. Nicholas E. ALLEN, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 22, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas B. Weaver, St. Louis, Mo., with whom Cornelius B. Kennedy, Washington, D.C., was on the briefs, for appellants.

David P. Durbin, with whom John T. Coyne, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before MACK, NEWMAN and STEADMAN, Associate Judges.

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

This is a case alleging legal malpractice in drafting a will, brought by several disappointed allegedly intended beneficiaries.1 The trial court granted the defendant drafting attorney's motion for summary judgment and dismissed the complaint with prejudice, on the ground that the plaintiffs "have no standing to bring this action for legal malpractice against defendant." Holding that the plaintiffs in fact do...

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