Cleveland Bar Ass'n v. Pleasant

As to objection No. 1, we are of the opinion that Pleasant is mistaken in his view that the entire procedure in this case is based upon the assumption that he occupied an adverse position and represented adverse and conflicting interests. He strenuously contends that in a proceeding to determine heirship there can really be no conflicting interests, the sole question being who is the heir, and that, therefore, in representing first cousin Wright he was in no sense hostile to the second cousins, who had called him originally and set in motion the proceedings to make him administrator of the…