· 9/5/1979
Jaramillo v. Hood
Citations
- 601 P.2d 66
- 93 N.M. 433
How courts have described this case
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- applying the four-year limitations period of § 37-1-4 to legal malpractice claims
- action for legal malpractice accrues when “actual loss or damage results” and “matters complained of are ascertainable and discoverable”
- damage from alleged legal malpractice in drafting will arose when testatrix died and loss of legal rights occurred
- action for legal malpractice accrues when “actual loss or damage results” and “matters complained of are ascertainable and discoverable”
- “[T]he cause of action accrues when actual loss or damage results.... ”
- duty to intended beneficiary implicitly recognized
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Judges: Federici, Sosa, Felter, Easley, Payne
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