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· 11/27/1995

Dudden v. Goodman

Citations

  • 543 N.W.2d 624
  • 1995 Iowa App. LEXIS 154
  • 1995 WL 798385

How courts have described this case

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  • holding the executor \had no reasonable means of knowing the estate's attorney may have caused the estate to pay excessive\ taxes and she \had a right to rely on [the attorney's] superior knowledge\ until she visited an accountant regarding the income tax return
  • “[I]t would be palpably unjust and quite unreasonable to require a client of a lawyer to obtain a second opinion on every professional decision the lawyer makes.”
  • “[T]he statute of limitations does not begin to run until the injured party knows or can be charged with the knowledge of the existence of [their] cause of action.”

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Judges: Donielson, Habhab, Huitink

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