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FORD v. MOORE

No. 19291.

552 N.W.2d 850 (1996)

1996 SD 112

Mary Ann FORD, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Robert MOORE and Moore & Kandaras, Attorneys at Law, Defendants and Appellees.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided September 4, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rick Johnson of Johnson, Eklund, Nicholson & Dougherty, Gregory, for plaintiff and appellant.

Michael J. Schaeffer of Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, Sioux Falls, for defendants and appellees.

KONENKAMP, Justice.

[¶ 1] Mary Ann Ford sued her former attorney claiming he negligently omitted filing her federal tort claim within the two-year statute of limitations, and alternatively, the lawsuit he brought in state court was defective. The circuit court granted summary judgment for the attorney. We reverse.

FACTS

On December 15, 1989, Ford was injured while a passenger in a vehicle driven by Molly Ann Lafferty, an employee of the Community...

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