Towns v. Frey

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that legal malpractice claim sounded in contract when attorney agreed to file lawsuit and achieve satisfactory results
• “[T]he contract relied upon must itself contain an undertaking to do the 14 thing for the nonperformance of which the action is brought.”
• “If one is going to assert a breach of contract claim against a lawyer, the contract 4 relied upon must itself contain an undertaking to do the thing for the nonperformance of 5 which the action is brought.”
• “If one is going to assert a breach of contract claim against a lawyer, the contract 3 relied upon must itself contain an undertaking to do the thing for the nonperformance of 4 which the action is brought.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).