SHARFF, WITTMER & KURTZ, P.A. v. MESSANA

No. 90-1256.

581 So.2d 906 (1991)

SHARFF, WITTMER & KURTZ, P.A. and James D. Grainger, Appellants, v. Joseph M. MESSANA and Ruth B. Messana, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied August 1, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hinshaw, Culbertson, Moelmann, Hoban & Fuller and Donna Waters Romero, Boca Raton, for appellants.

Ruden, Barnett, McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell, and James R. George and Glenn E. Goldstein, Miami, for appellees.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HUBBART and GERSTEN, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal by the defendants Sharff, Wittmer & Kurtz, P.A. and James D. Grainger from a final order denying their motion to set aside a settlement agreement in an accountant's malpractice action. We reverse upon a holding that where, as here, (a) an accountant enters into a settlement agreement in a malpractice action brought against him by his former clients for allegedly negligent preparation of the clients' income tax return, and (b) the...

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