Rogers v. Hopkins
Supreme Court of Georgia
Attorney and Client. Guardian and Ward. Principal and. Surety. Debtor and Creditor. Banks. Trusts. Public Policy. Before Judge • Clark. City Court of Atlanta.
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Attorney and Client. Guardian and Ward. Principal and. Surety. Debtor and Creditor. Banks. Trusts. Public Policy. Before Judge • Clark. City Court of Atlanta. June Term, 1882. To tlie report set out in the decision it is necessary to add only the following letter, in which one of the defendants, J. T. Pendleton, gave notice to Mrs. Rogers as to the status of her case prior to the failure of the bank: “March 31, 1881. “ Mrs. Rogers — Dear Madam: * * * . * * You say in your note of yesterday, that you think you have been overcharged in this matter. It is rather late, it seems to me, to come to…
1Opinion of the Court
Hammond, Judge.
Jennie M. Rogers, for herself and as guardian for her three minor children, brought suit against J. T. Pendleton and Hopkins & Glenn, alleging that they had been employed by her as attorneys to bring suit against The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, upon a policy of insurance upon the life of her husband, and that they had recovered judgment and had collected the money on-said suit, and had failed to pay it over on demand.
The defendants, besides the general issue, filed three pleas.
First, they admitted the recovery for the plaintiff as charged in the declaration, but…
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