Hendrix v. Daugherty

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that a plaintiff asserting a claim for legal malpractice “must plead and prove” the elements of their case, including that a relationship existed giving rise to the duty alleged
• affirming a demurrer to a legal malpractice action alleging negligence and breach of contract, since the plaintiffs “failed to allege that they would have prevailed in the underlying action but for the negligence of the defendant attorneys”
• “[A] person may not recover for the same injury under the survival statute and the wrongful death statute. There can be but one recovery.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).