Carder v. Culbertson

How courts have described this case

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• declining to impose liability on attorney where plaintiff claimed attorney was negligent in failing to execute the will before testator’s death
• “Creating a duty, even under the unfortunate circumstances of this case, could compromise the attorney’s duty of undivided loyalty to the client and impose an untenable burden upon the attorney-client relationship.”
• attorney did not owe duty to testator’s brother, as prospective beneficiary, to ensure testator executed his will promptly
• attorney did not owe duty to testator’s brother, as prospective beneficiary, to ensure testator executed his will promptly

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).