McStowe v. Bornstein

How courts have described this case

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

• construing legal malpractice claim as breach of contractual relationship between client and attorney which therefore survived attorney’s death
• evaluating whether a claim of legal malpractice sounded in tort or contract for determining whether the claim could be brought against the attorney’s estate
• construing legal malpractice claim as breach of contractual relationship between client and attorney which therefore survived attorney’s death
• “the existence of a contractual relationship between the plaintiff and the deceased attorney permits the plaintiff’s claim against the attorney to survive the attorney’s death”
• \[r]eported questions need not be answered ... except to the extent that it is necessary to do so in resolving the basic issue\
• “Reported questions need not be answered . . . except to the extent that it is necessary to do so in resolving the basic issue”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).