Lalance & Grosjean Mfg. Co. v. Haberman Mfg. Co.

LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.

The question presented upon this application is whether a certain letter written by counsel for the complainants to Mr. Banks, a witness called on behalf of the complainants, which letter is entirely concerned with the matters in *564controversy in this suit, is privileged. That communications between client and counsel, and between counsel and associate counsel, are privileged, is, of course, undisputed. This rule is founded upon a public policy, which undertakes to secure the freest and fullest statement of a party’s case to the lawyer whom he retained to prosecute or…