Alton attorney accidentally sues himself

[The Straight Story]

Alton attorney accidentally sues himself


Alton attorney Emert Wyss thought he could make money in a Madison County class action lawsuit, but he accidentally sued himself instead. Now he has four law firms after his money - and he hired all four.

Wyss’s boomerang litigation started in 2002, when he invited Carmelita McLaughlin to his office at 1600 Washington St. in Alton. Acting as her attorney when she bought a home in Alton and when she refinanced it, on both occasions she had chosen Centerre Title--a company that Wyss owned--to close her loans.

In the course of the attorney-client relationship, Wyss advised McLaughlin she might have a claim against Alliance Mortgage, holder of the first mortgage. Wyss believed Alliance Mortgage might have broken the law by charging a $60 fax fee when she refinanced.

He produced a retainer agreement providing for his legal services and those from the Lakin Law Firm of Wood River, Campbell and Brinkley of Godfrey, Freed and Weiss of Chicago, and Diab and Bock of Chicago. McLaughlin signed.

http://madisonrecord.com/news/contentview.asp?c=148217

[Oak2004]

1. That's just choice :)

And on a more serious note, if a gaggle of attorneys can't figure out the entangled mortgage morass enough to not sue themselves, how the hell are ordinary people expected to?

[ReadTomPaine]

2. The subject is interesting, but the article itself is very poorly written.

Shame on you, Steve Korris. That piece reads like a list of ingredients off of a detergent box.

[bananas]

3. It's like "I am my own grandpa"

LOL thanks for posting that!