Sprague v. Taylor
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for the fraud of the defendant, an attorney at law, in inducing Margaret Sprague, one of the plaintiffs, to settle a suit brought against her, in which he was retained as her counsel; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County, and tried to the court before Torrance, J. Facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiffs, and appeal by1 the defendant. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
In the summer of 1885 the defendant, an attorney at law, was employed by one Kent to collect a deficiency judgment for the sum of $1,849.82, which had been rendered in September, 1874, by the Supreme Court of the state of New York against the plaintiff Daniel Sprague. At the time of such employment the defendant was not counsel for the plaintiffs, but he had been their counsel, and had been consulted by them in reference to this judgment and the bond upon which the judgment was based, and he believed that they would come to him or to his father for professional advice and assistance whenever…
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