Goodley

The first amended complaint for negligence alleges “That plaintiff is the owner of the claim [legal malpractice] against defendants herein by virtue of a written assignment by Eleanor Rae Katz, dated August 7, 1972”; that defendants are attorneys at law and represented Eleanor Katz in a dissolution of marriage proceeding during the course of which they were negligent in advising her that they did not have to keep in their possession certain original insurance policies of which she was beneficiary and returned them to her, and in failing to secure a court order to restrain her husband from changing the status of said policies; that subsequently and during the pendency of the dissolution proceeding, her husband found the policies and, without her knowledge, cancelled the same and shortly thereafter died; that defendants’ erroneous advice that she was protected in her property rights, was *392 the proximate cause of her loss of the proceeds from the policies; and that as a result of defendants’ negligence she has been damaged in the sum of $147,000. Subsequent to the filing of their answer and extensive discovery proceedings, defendants filed motion for summary judgment.…