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· 1/17/1898

First National Bank v. Province

Citations

  • 20 Mont. 374
  • 51 P. 821
  • 1898 Mont. LEXIS 5

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  • holding that engineering was not one of the traditional professions at common law and, accordingly, not subject to the malpractice statute of limitations
  • \only physicians and lawyers” can commit \malpractice” under both R.C. 2305.11(A) and its common-law definition
  • which limits malpractice actions to the professions of lawyers and physicians because they exercise independent judgment directly affecting their client/patient and necessarily will often fail to fulfill expectations yet fulfill their professional duties
  • professional engineer is not considered to have committed “malpractice”
  • Negligence of professional engineer did not constitute malpractice.

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Judges: Hunt, Pemberton, Pigott

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