Schmitz v. Crotty

How courts have described this case

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• involving a breach of a duty to beneficiaries when attorney mishandled a tax return that resulted in higher taxes than should have been paid and improperly reduced the share of the estate to the beneficiaries
• attorney breached duty owed to beneficiaries to exercise reasonable skill and care in handling an estate
• reasonableness of attorney’s conduct ordinarily a question of fact, but where facts so compelling that no conflicting inferences available, then whether attorney performed duty is decided as a matter of law by the court
• outlining elements of legal malpractice claim

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