Miller v. Mueller

This case concerns the authority of an attorney to enter into a contract for the sale of his client’s property.

Lois Mueller and Marie Miller are sisters. In 1969, they acquired a parcel of real estate, improved by a house, as joint tenants, assuming an existing mortgage on the property. Differences arose between the sisters, and in January 1961 Lois Mueller moved from the house. Marie Miller has made the mortgage payments on the property since February 1971. In the latter part of 1971 Lois Mueller was approached by Sidney Blum, an attorney, in the clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of…