“Still red-eyed and sniffly from the pepper spray, he looked positively grief-stricken. True, Atchison Potter’s death was a calamity for him. She might not like Riesner, but she knew how it felt to have a client murdered.And then there was his case, which had evaporated with Potter’s death. Potter’s need for vengeance had animated it in the first place. Now what remained were ashes.Or so she hoped. She had done some legal research at seven A.M. in an arcane area of the law called survival of act...ions. She was trying to find out what could happen next, legally. It wasn’t easy. The cause of action for wrongful death suits did die when the plaintiff died, but in this case Potter had obtained a judgment. Could the case somehow continue, with the money, assuming the judgment was executed, going into Potter’s estate to be probated along with his other assets?Which brought up questions she couldn’t answer yet, such as whether Potter had a will and who he had left his money to. And the fact that he had a grandson who might be a pretermitted heir with a claim on Potter’s estate.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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