Lindner

Plaintiff appeals from an adverse judgment in a nonjury trial, in an action for alleged malpractice by defendants.

Questions Presented

1. Sufficiency of findings and evidence to support them.

2. Was plaintiff’s examination of defendant Wood improperly restricted"?

Evidence

: Plaintiff is the widow of Clarence Lindner who died in January, 1952. Defendants are certified public accountants, engaged in the practice of accounting, including tax phases thereof. From time to time,, since, before 1948, defendants were employed by Clarence Lindner and plaintiff to prepare federal and California income tax returns, income tax estimates, and to do related accounting work as requested.

For many years Lindner had been and at the time of death was publisher of the San Francisco Examiner; director and vice president of Hearst Publishing Company, Inc., the owner of the Examiner; and director and vice president of Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc., the owner of all the stock of Hearst Publishing Company, Inc.

For a period of approximately five years commencing in about March 1952, Hearst Publishing Company, Inc. (hereinafter called Hearst) paid plaintiff certain monies in weekly…