McAbee v. Edwards

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• both recognizing a named beneficiary’s cause of action against an attorney when technical errors undid an intent otherwise apparent from the will
• daughter, intended sole beneficiary of estate, had a cause of action against attorney who misadvised testator that it was unnecessary to change her will in order to preter-mit husband, whom testator married after her will was executed
• attorney preparing will has duty to client's intended beneficiaries
• attorney preparing will has duty to client's intended beneficiaries
• judgment on the pleadings is limited wholly to the pleadings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).