Lichty v. Hugus
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset county. This was an action of assumpsit, brought January 5th 1866, by Isaac Hugus, Esq., for professional services as an attorney-at-law, against Joseph Lichty. The pleas were payment, and the Statute of Limitations. A suit was brought February 15th 1855 in the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset county, in which Joseph Lichty was one of the defendants. Hugus was his counsel in the case.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset county. This was an action of assumpsit, brought January 5th 1866, by Isaac Hugus, Esq., for professional services as an attorney-at-law, against Joseph Lichty. The pleas were payment, and the Statute of Limitations. A suit was brought February 15th 1855 in the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset county, in which Joseph Lichty was one of the defendants. Hugus was his counsel in the case. A verdict and judgment were recovered against Lichty, November 14th 1856, and he removed the case to the Supreme Court. Mr. Hugus was Lichty’s counsel in that…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, July 3d 1867, by
Woodward, C. J.
— The plaintiff in error has small reason to *437complain of the answers which the court gave to his points. It surely was not erroneous to say that the Statute of Limitations would not begin to run against a hill of attorney’s fees until the dissolution of the relation betwixt him and his client. If the law were not so, every attorney to assert the statute would have to sue his clients once in six years, which would be destructive to the confidence which is essential to the relation. The point was ruled in Foster v. Jack, 4…
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