Ohio Court of Appeals May 23, 2000, No. 99AP-1073. (Dykes v. Gayton)

Kennedy, Judge.

This appeal raises an important public policy issue: Whether a decedent’s attorney may be sued by the decedent’s intended beneficiaries and the court-appointed administrator for the attorney’s negligence in failing to obtain the statutorily required signature of an attesting witness, which negligence results in the probate court’s denying admission of decedent’s will to probate.