The first cause of action was properly dismissed on the ground that while defendant attorneys' failure to perfect the appeal from the order dismissing the underlying action may have been sufficient to plead a breach of duty, plaintiffs' allegations fail to show that but for such failure they would have prevailed on the appeal (see, Weiner v Hershman & Leicher,
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