Weston v. Dowty

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that assignment of proceeds permissible when assignment required assignor to bring malpractice action within one year and conveyed to assignee all proceeds from action, less costs of bringing action
• holding that the homeowner plaintiffs were real parties in interest even though they had agreed to give any proceeds obtained in their legal malpractice lawsuit to the slip-and-fall victim who had obtained a judgment against them because of the defendants’ legal malpractice
• explaining that an invalid assignment does not warrant dismissal of a legal malpractice claim
• explaining that an invalid assignment does not warrant dismissal of a legal malpractice claim

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