Title: Wilhelm, et al. v. Marston, et al.
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 672, 2013
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: September 25, 2014

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
GEORGE E. WILHELM, et al.,  
 
Plaintiffs-Below, 
Appellants, 
 
v. 
 
DONALD E. MARSTON, 
ESQUIRE, et al., 
 
Defendants-Below, 
Appellees. 
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§  No. 672, 2013 
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§  Court Below:  Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware, 
§  in and for New Castle County 
§  C.A. No. N12C-06-015 
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Submitted: September 24, 2014 
 
 
 
 
Decided: 
September 25, 2014 
 
Before STRINE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND and RIDGELY, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
 
This 25th day of September 2014, upon consideration of the briefs and 
record on appeal, we conclude that the judgment of the Superior Court should be 
affirmed on the basis of its well-reasoned decision of November 20, 2013.  That 
decision addressed the arguments fairly presented to it by the parties in a clear and 
thorough way.  In fact, the Superior Court decision made the generous assumption 
for the sake of decision that the appellants had a full three years to sue their 
original counsel for malpractice after meeting with their new counsel in 2008 – a 
decade after the accident in question – even though their representation by former 
counsel had ended in 2004, which itself was six years after the accident.  Despite 
that reality, the appellants did not file a malpractice claim until June 1, 2012, 
nearly fourteen years after the accident.  On appeal, the appellants have attempted 
to present to us arguments that they never fairly presented to the Superior Court in 
the first instance in order to show that this slow-arriving suit was nonetheless 
timely filed.  That is not proper under our Rule 8, and the interests of justice would 
be disserved, not advanced, by allowing these new arguments to be considered for 
the first time on appeal.   
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the JUDGMENT of the 
Superior Court of November 20, 2013 is AFFIRMED.    
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/Leo E. Strine, Jr. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chief Justice