Can a San Antonio lawyer be held responsible for his dead co-defendant’s share of damages in a legal malpractice case?

It’s a mess of a question that the Texas Supreme Court recently sent to San Antonio’s Fourth Court of Appeals to answer—specifically whether Oscar C. Gonzalez is responsible for all of the $77,500 in actual damages that a jury split against him and his attorney co-defendant Eric Turton.

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